SFL 331 Final Exam 2026/2027

SFL 331 Final Exam
As the discipline of child development emerged in the United States during the twentieth
century
child research institutes were established at a number of prominent universities.
Which of these pioneers in child development minimized the importance of innate
biological factors and maturation while asserting a primary role for experience?
John B. Watson and Luther Emmett
All of the following were themes of development discussed in the text except
whether development is a closed or open system.
Which pioneer in child development is most likely to have uttered this statement? "The
best thing that parents can do is to follow their child's own natural impulses and rich
imagination."
G. Stanley Hall
All of the following statements are correct except
the first Mexican American families and families of Spanish descent came to the United
States in the early twentieth century.
Which of the following best reflects current thinking about the influence of the
environment on infants' development?
Environmental influences can be both direct and indirect, involving environments in
which infants never spend any time.
For Puritans in the New World, which statement appears to reflect their views about
infants?
"They are innocent vipers, ignorant but inherently sinful."
In the early and mid-twentieth century, changes in societal attitudes toward children and
their development
supported the passage of the Social Security Act.
James Mark Baldwin's inclusion of research on animals in his studies of the
development of human infants' hand preference reflected
the influence of theories of evolution on studies of human behavior and development.
As an increasingly romantic view of childhood emerged in the United States during the
nineteenth century
mothers' role as moral guardian was emphasized.