1919
William Kaye Estes, American psychologist and academic (died 2011)
William Kaye Estes, American psychologist and academic (died 2011)
William Kaye Estes, American psychologist and academic (died 2011)
William Kaye Estes
American psychologist (1919–2011)
- Born
- 1919
William Kaye Estes was an American psychologist. A Review of General Psychology survey, published in 2002, ranked Estes as the 77th most cited psychologist of the 20th century. In order to develop a statistical explanation for the learning phenomena, William Kaye Estes developed the Stimulus Sampling Theory in 1950 which suggested that a stimulus-response association is learned by a single trial; however, the learning process is continuous and consists of the accumulation of distinct stimulus-response pairings.