Funder and Ozer (1997) argue that authority, morality, masculinity and femininity are learned from parents in the early stages of a child's life. Similarly, Shoda, Mischel and Peake (1990) discovered that stability in parental child-rearing practices, impacted on cogitative and self-regulatory competence in early adulthood. ... If the child's needs for love, attention or stimulation are not satisfied, Erikson believes that the child will develop a sense of mistrust that may be carried into later life. ... While twins reared apart demonstrate interesting similarities, it is those who ...

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For her, childhood was the period during which each child could become its 'real self', the endpoint of personality development. ... In contrast to Freud's view that the parental role facilitated children through psychosexual stages of development, instead she espoused a view that positive parenting was needed to facilitate the development of the child's 'real self' by nurturing a feeling of belonging in the child. ... After the age of five, a critical period in childhood, he believed a child's internal working model of relationships is resistant to change....

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It is suggested that these experiences play a part in shaping one's personality as an adult and that any excruciating ordeals or distresses that one may have experienced as a child and has been suppressed into the unconscious may result into the development of abnormal behavior and psychological illnesses. ... It provides an explanation as why painful memories from childhood are difficult to remember as adults due to the fact that some of these memories may be so traumatic that the way of dealing with it as a child is to suppress it into the unconscious premises of the mind. ... It focus...

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Rather then showing the creature love, Victor chooses to ignore the fact that he bestowed life upon the creature, " the beauty of the dream vanished, and breathless horror and disgust filled my heart." (85) He leaves the creature for dead just as an irresponsible mother would leave her child at birth. ... If a child is without a primary care giver in this period it will be difficult for them to develop relationships later in life. ... In his study he found that young monkeys reared with live mothers and young peers easily learned to play and socialize with other young monkeys. ...

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A healthy and strong mate who could provide and protect herself and their child would ensure its survival making them choosier in their choice of mate and so less promiscuous then males. ... The media, social relations, work and rules of institutions all seem to have ideas about what is and what is not appropriate behaviour for both genders, these play a very big part of our lives and social constructivists believe have a very big influence on us when constructing our identities and also what paths we take in life, from career making decisions , personal relationships to child rearing and ...

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