James Mark Baldwin's inclusion of research on animals in his studies of the development of human infants' hand preference reflected

a. the prevailing view at the time that infants were not actually fully human
b. his disinterest in social institutions and cultural contexts
c. the influence of Jean Piaget's theories of Baldwin's thinking
d. the influence of theories of evolution on studies of human behavior and development


D

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