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Answer for exercise 2

The solution for exercise 2 in chapter 04 - World culture - Nature or nurture? of Cutting Edge Upper-Intermediate - Student's Book by Sarah Cunningham, Peter Moor and Jonathan Bygrave

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.
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