WVU SM 380 Final Exam Question and
answers correctly solved 2025
Societal changes - correct answer • _________ _________ during the late
1890s altered the traditional relationship of adults and young people.
o Urbanization
o Change in the household economy
o Absence of early work for children
o Secularization (men were not attended to Church and its effect on
manliness).
Democratization of Education - correct answer • The ___________
___________ ___________ convinced parents that education was the best
legacy for their children.
• Educators believe that schools needed more adult supervised activities.
Manliness - correct answer was perceived as "the negation of all that was
soft, feminine or sentimental"
YMCA - correct answer became an instrumental institution to lead the
crusade of promoting spiritual and physical growth.
Luther Gulick - correct answer ________ __________ emerged as the most
important figure for the Muscular Christianity movement of the late 1890s and
early 1900s.
• founded:
• Public Schools Athletic League (PSAL) of NYC (1903),
• Playground Association of America.
,True - correct answer T/F: Stanley Hall and Luther Gulick proposed the
Evolutionary Theory of Play
True - correct answer T/F: Basketball and Volleyball are said to be the
outcomes of Gulick's drive for innovation with new sports and games.
Volleyball - correct answer William Morgan created __________ in 1895
James Naimsmith created basketball in 1891
The Evolutionary Theory of Play - correct answer • Human play was seen as
an instinct that resembled the different phases of human evolution.
• Kicking, running and throwing symbolize the phase of our primal ancestors.
• More evolved activities like tag games and track and field corresponded to
the pre-savage stage of evolution (hunting).
• Sports that required more complex motor skills, strategy and organization
represented the time of evolution (group hunting).
Athletic Skills and Capabilities - correct answer • Proper motor development
becomes essential to develop the neural system
• By repeating complex motor skills (practiced in team sports) the child is also
exercising his/her moral capabilities by learning how to cooperate, be loyal to
the team, and being obedient to the rules.
PSAL (Public Schools Athletic Leagues - correct answer ________ of NYC
included the city's 630 schools.
• It was privately funded by the most prominent people of the time.
• It included three forms of competition:
o Individual Physical Challenges
, o Class Athletics
o League City Championships
The Playground Movement - correct answer • The need for supervised
programs led to the creation in 1903 of the __________ ___________ in
Chicago
• Authorities approved the construction of 10 parks for the city.
• Henry Curtis leader of the _________ __________ opposed the idea of
unsupervised sports
Private Academies - correct answer • In the early 1900s ___________
________ and boarding schools emulated the role played by British sports in
English schools.
• The exclusive Groton School in Massachusetts included as part of their
method "daily cold showers, sports, chapel services, and Bible reading
Interscholastic Sports - correct answer • _______________ ____________ in
public schools developed in a similar fashion as they did at the college level:
o Organized by the student body, driven by winning-at-all cost mentality.
Comprehensive high school curriculum - correct answer o In the 1920s the
emergence of the ____________ ___________ __________ _________
(hands on approach to education) had a significant impact on the
development of high athletics.
o interscholastic athletics emerged as the solution to unify schools and
communities
Commercialization of Baseball - correct answer • The rapid growth of the
sport opened the eyes to those who saw the possibility to profit
answers correctly solved 2025
Societal changes - correct answer • _________ _________ during the late
1890s altered the traditional relationship of adults and young people.
o Urbanization
o Change in the household economy
o Absence of early work for children
o Secularization (men were not attended to Church and its effect on
manliness).
Democratization of Education - correct answer • The ___________
___________ ___________ convinced parents that education was the best
legacy for their children.
• Educators believe that schools needed more adult supervised activities.
Manliness - correct answer was perceived as "the negation of all that was
soft, feminine or sentimental"
YMCA - correct answer became an instrumental institution to lead the
crusade of promoting spiritual and physical growth.
Luther Gulick - correct answer ________ __________ emerged as the most
important figure for the Muscular Christianity movement of the late 1890s and
early 1900s.
• founded:
• Public Schools Athletic League (PSAL) of NYC (1903),
• Playground Association of America.
,True - correct answer T/F: Stanley Hall and Luther Gulick proposed the
Evolutionary Theory of Play
True - correct answer T/F: Basketball and Volleyball are said to be the
outcomes of Gulick's drive for innovation with new sports and games.
Volleyball - correct answer William Morgan created __________ in 1895
James Naimsmith created basketball in 1891
The Evolutionary Theory of Play - correct answer • Human play was seen as
an instinct that resembled the different phases of human evolution.
• Kicking, running and throwing symbolize the phase of our primal ancestors.
• More evolved activities like tag games and track and field corresponded to
the pre-savage stage of evolution (hunting).
• Sports that required more complex motor skills, strategy and organization
represented the time of evolution (group hunting).
Athletic Skills and Capabilities - correct answer • Proper motor development
becomes essential to develop the neural system
• By repeating complex motor skills (practiced in team sports) the child is also
exercising his/her moral capabilities by learning how to cooperate, be loyal to
the team, and being obedient to the rules.
PSAL (Public Schools Athletic Leagues - correct answer ________ of NYC
included the city's 630 schools.
• It was privately funded by the most prominent people of the time.
• It included three forms of competition:
o Individual Physical Challenges
, o Class Athletics
o League City Championships
The Playground Movement - correct answer • The need for supervised
programs led to the creation in 1903 of the __________ ___________ in
Chicago
• Authorities approved the construction of 10 parks for the city.
• Henry Curtis leader of the _________ __________ opposed the idea of
unsupervised sports
Private Academies - correct answer • In the early 1900s ___________
________ and boarding schools emulated the role played by British sports in
English schools.
• The exclusive Groton School in Massachusetts included as part of their
method "daily cold showers, sports, chapel services, and Bible reading
Interscholastic Sports - correct answer • _______________ ____________ in
public schools developed in a similar fashion as they did at the college level:
o Organized by the student body, driven by winning-at-all cost mentality.
Comprehensive high school curriculum - correct answer o In the 1920s the
emergence of the ____________ ___________ __________ _________
(hands on approach to education) had a significant impact on the
development of high athletics.
o interscholastic athletics emerged as the solution to unify schools and
communities
Commercialization of Baseball - correct answer • The rapid growth of the
sport opened the eyes to those who saw the possibility to profit
