A young child may be separated from one or both caregivers for a variety of reasons, including divorce, death or hospitalisation. ... Robertson and Robertson, who were collaborators of Bowlby's, researched the effects of young children separated from their parents under circumstances such as the child spending time in hospital or being sent to a residential nursery while the mother or main caregiver was in hospital. After having done detailed observations, they suggested that when children are first separated from their mother or mother substitute they go through three stages of reaction...

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There are strong similarities identical twins show in intelligence, personality, and many other characteristics, regardless of being raised in separate homes. ... The theory of assimilation, coined by psychologist Jean Piaget, supports the nurture theory by portraying the idea that each new piece of data or second of experience adds upon each other, constantly evolving a new equilibrium, or in this, case growth in ones self. ...

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Those memories just exist like a piece of decoration lying meaninglessly in a house. ... Some of them accept individuals as separate entities who can pick and actively select their own activities, whereas others are more deterministic about this issue and dutifully propose that we can no more settle on our own conduct than a machine can. ... Cognitive therapists are basically fundamental reductionists although they do usually change about how far mental techniques ought to be separated when clarifying them. ...

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It is easier to distinguish what is 'pure' and 'applied' in older disciplines: everybody can separate physics and mathematics from engineering, or anatomy and physiology from medicine. ...

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