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

The key answer of exercise 3

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 again and tick the three sentences that are true. Correct the false sentences.

Answer

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  2. The first experiment with toddlers is designed to test the nurture argument.
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  4. The first experiment shows how likely adults are to gender stereotype.
  5. The second experiment is controversial and was carried out many years ago.
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  7. Dr Hines found that male monkeys spent more time with the boys' toys, and female monkeys more time with the girls' toys.
  8. 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.