The early branch of psychology that focused on our human need for love and acceptance and on environments that nurture or limit personal growth was called

A) behaviorism.
B) cognitive psychology.
C) humanistic psychology.
D) Freudian psychology.

The Piagetian term for a particular type of centration in which a child thinks about the world only from his or her personal perspective is called:

A) static reasoning.
B) egocentrism.
C) irreversibility.
D) conservatism.

A relationship in which one event depends on another is known as a ________.

A) response set
B) reciprocal bearing
C) correlation
D) contingency

________ as a form of sexual arousal, involves watching another person undress, do things in the nude, or have sex.

A) Sexual sadism
B) Voyeurism
C) Exhibitionism
D) Frotteurism

Information from the taste buds travels to an area of the

A) frontal lobe.
B) parietal lobe.
C) occipital lobe.
D) temporal lobe.

An awareness that children's temperaments influence parents' child-rearing practices should inhibit our tendency to

A) emphasize the interaction of nature and nurture.
B) assess the stability of personality traits.
C) blame parents for our own dysfunctional characteristics.
D) identify cultural differences in child-rearing practices.