Adjacent to Seashore Hall this facility houses Department of Psychology research laboratories and faculty offices.
Kenneth Wartinbee Spence
1907 - 1967
Achievements
- Associate Professor of Psychology at the University of Iowa beginning 1938 and head of psychology department 1942 until 1964
- During his 26-year span at the University of Iowa, Spence directed a total of 72 doctoral theses
- Received his bachelor's in 1929 and master's in 1930 in Psychology from McGill University in Montreal; received his PhD from Yale in 1933
- Won the Wales Gold Medal in Mental Sciences from McGill in 1929 and the university's Governor-General's Medal for Research in 1930
- National Research Council fellow and research assistant, working with chimpanzees at the Yale Laboratories of Primate Biology in Orange Park., Florida
- Elected to National Academy of Sciences in 1954 and was a fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science and the American Psychological Association (APA)
Known for his theoretical and experimental studies of conditioning and learning
Building Information
Street Address
308 East Iowa Avenue
Year built
1968
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