Kenneth Spence

• abstract: Kenneth Wartenbe Spence (May 6, 1907 - January 12, 1967) was a prominent American psychologist whose theoretical work on learning and motivation complemented the efforts by Clark Hull to develop quantitative theories of behavior and came to be known as neo-behaviorism. Spence's analysis of discrimination learning (1936, 1937) in terms of gradients of excitation and inhibition provided was one of the first to show that mathematical deductions from a quantitative theory could generate interesting and empirically testable predictions (Wagner, 2008).

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