diff --git a/rest_framework/throttling.py b/rest_framework/throttling.py
index 0ba2ba66b..e262b886b 100644
--- a/rest_framework/throttling.py
+++ b/rest_framework/throttling.py
@@ -52,7 +52,7 @@ class SimpleRateThrottle(BaseThrottle):
     A simple cache implementation, that only requires `.get_cache_key()`
     to be overridden.
 
-    The rate (requests / seconds) is set by a `rate` attribute on the View
+    The rate (requests / seconds) is set by a `rate` attribute on the Throttle
     class.  The attribute is a string of the form 'number_of_requests/period'.
 
     Period should be one of: ('s', 'sec', 'm', 'min', 'h', 'hour', 'd', 'day')