Walter Samuel Hunter (1889 - 1954)

Walter Samuel Hunter (March 22, 1889 – August 3, 1954) was an American psychologist. He contributed to psychology by leading an effort to develop psychology as a science and revolutionizing the study of learning and memory. Renowned for implementing the delayed-response task, he explored the nature of memory representation in animals. He was one of the first scholars of the time to focus not on the study of subjective mental processes but rather on the observation of animal behaviour.