Answer — Exercise 2
04 - World culture - Nature or nurture?·Cutting Edge Upper-Intermediate - Student's Book
Question
Watch the video. Then work in pairs and answer the questions.
Answer
- It proves how likely adults are to gender stereotype and therefore how easily they can influence young children.
- It proves the importance of nature: even without parental influence, male monkeys show a preference for boys' toys and female monkeys for girls' toys.
- They might be attracted to motion and things with moving parts like mechanical objects.
- 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.