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Kenneth W. Spence

KW

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Publications

42

Citations

4.6K

H-Index

30

Active since

1937

Affiliations

Iowa State University(Current)

University of Iowa

Iowa City Public Library

Kenneth W. Spence is an author at Iowa State University specializing in social sciences, psychology, and cognitive science.

Top concepts

Social SciencesPsychologyCognitive ScienceExperimental PsychologyBehavioral ScienceAffective NeuroscienceExperimental Analysis Of BehaviorCognitionAttentionConditioning

Publications per year

1937–2015

42

Publications

42

Behavior Theory and Conditioning

M. E. Bitterman, Kenneth W. Spence · The American Journal of Psychology · 1957 · 1.5K citations

Behavioral Sciences, Behaviorism, Behavioral Psychology +8

A theory of emotionally based drive (D) and its relation to performance in simple learning situations.

Kenneth W. Spence · American Psychologist · 1958 · 333 citations

Cognitive Science, Affective Variable, Learning Psychology +12

The relationship of anxiety level to performance in serial learning.

Janet A. Taylor, Kenneth W. Spence · Journal of Experimental Psychology · 1952 · 253 citations

Cognitive Science, Learning Psychology, Educational Psychology +5

Experimental studies of learning and the higher mental processes in infra-human primates.

Kenneth W. Spence · Psychological Bulletin · 1937 · 226 citations

Cognitive Science, Behavioral Sciences, Human Learning +15

The nature of the response in discrimination learning.

Kenneth W. Spence · Psychological Review · 1952 · 204 citations

Cognitive Science, Learning Theory, Discrimination +7

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