1. Using information from ″The Secret Life of the Baby′s Brain″, what role or impact do you think genetics and biology play in a child′s behavior when they are born? What role or impact do you think the environment plays in a child′s behavior?
2. Using information from ″Food Memories″, what role or impact does the environment inside the womb play in a person′s psychological make-up? ″Food Memories″ discusses one possible way the environment inside the womb may impact us – what are some others? Think about other behaviors we engage in, could these have been impacted by the environment inside the womb? Can you give an example?
3. Using information from ″What Do Babies Think″, ″Babies and Language″, and ″Born Good?″, explain how both the environment and our biology/genetics (the automatically occurring behaviors/abilities we are born with, things we are not taught but we automatically do) impact human behavior. How do you think they work together? (In other words, how do you think nature and nurture interact with one another to make us who we are?) Give a real-life example.
Links:
The Secret Life of the Baby′s Brain: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U0L0mYi_ftc
Food Memories:
https://www.npr.org/2011/08/08/139033757/babys-palate-and-food-memories-shaped-before-birth
What do babies think:
Babies and language:
Born Good?:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FRvVFW85IcU