... their children's personalities, he conceived of the relationship between mother and child in biological and ethological terms. In doing so he too rejected Freud's psychosexual and Freud's 'cupboard love' explanation. Indeed he proposed that personality is developed through an attachment process whereby babies are innately programmed to form attachments to their mothers as key attachment figures from birth. While early ... ...

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... . Evolutionary psychology perspectives believe that sexual selection can explain sex differences. They look at how male and female behaviour relates to evolutionary factors, unlike biological psychologist who look for a biological explanation such as brain differences and chemicals such as hormones, they believe that to promote successful reproduction different characteristics and patterns of behaviour have developed in males and females. Reasons given ... ...

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