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Article: BEHAVIORIST WILLIAM SCHOENFELD BROUGHT NEW APPROACH TO STUDY OF PSYCHOLOGY.(News/National/International)
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- Rocky Mountain News (Denver, CO)
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- August 10, 1996
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Byline: Wolfgang Saxon The New York Times
William N. Schoenfeld, a be-hav-ior-ist who helped establish psychology as a solid scientific discipline at American universities, died Aug. 3 at his home in Sun City West, Ariz. He was 80.
He suffered a long illness, according to Columbia University, where he had been a faculty member.
In 1949, he and a colleague, Dr. Fred S. Keller, introduced an undergraduate psychology course in which each student learned the basics by testing and manipulating the responses and habits of one white rat.
That addition to the curriculam made Columbia the first university in the world where undergraduates ...