Cover of the textbook Cutting Edge Upper-Intermediate - Student's Book

The key answer of exercise 2

The key to exercise solutions in chapter 04 - World culture - Nature or nurture? for the textbook Cutting Edge Upper-Intermediate - Student's Book with authors Sarah Cunningham, Peter Moor and Jonathan Bygrave from Pearson Education

Question

Watch the video. Then work in pairs and answer the questions.

Answer

  1. It proves how likely adults are to gender stereotype and therefore how easily they can influence young children.
  2. It proves the importance of nature: even without parental influence, male monkeys show a preference for boys' toys and female monkeys for girls' toys.
  3. They might be attracted to motion and things with moving parts like mechanical objects.
  4. The classic scientific view was that nurture played a huge part in our preferences, but more recent research has shown that nature plays just as big a role.