Who Is Credited with Founding Child Development as an Academic

question 83

Multiple Choice

Who is credited with founding child development as an academic discipline and used questionnaires to study the "contents of children's minds?"

• A) John Watson
• B) G. Stanley Hall
• C) Jean Piaget
• D) John Locke

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