William Kaye Estes, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death
TweetWilliam Kaye Estes
American psychologist
Date of Birth: 17-Jun-1919
Place of Birth: Minneapolis, Minnesota, United States
Date of Death: 17-Aug-2011
Profession: psychologist
Nationality: United States
Zodiac Sign: Gemini 
About William Kaye Estes
- William Kaye Estes (June 17, 1919 – August 17, 2011) 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 on a single trial; however, the learning process is continuous and consists of the accumulation of distinct stimulus-response pairings.
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