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AP Psychology 1.5 Developmental Psychology. Which of the following is an environmental prenatal influence?
Transcript
- 00:04
Here's your shmoop du jour brought to you by lamaze classes [Man teaching lamaze class]
- 00:07
the instructor can't figure out why expecting couples keep enrolling
- 00:10
He figures if they really like a good maze okay here's our question which of the
- 00:15
following is an environmental prenatal influence and here your potential answers
- 00:19
....so what's this question asking well there are two
Full Transcript
- 00:24
types of prenatal influences environmental and genetic basically [Pregnant woman]
- 00:28
influences that are inherited genetically or those affected by things
- 00:31
physically done to the unborn baby a classic nature versus nurture situation
- 00:36
and not the classic nature versus nurture mind you that was Bob nature [Boys boxing in a ring]
- 00:40
versus Harry nurture 13 rounds in 1954 catch it on ESPN Classic the next time
- 00:45
you get a chance okay.... let's take a look at mother's eye color
- 00:48
well unless we're talking about those tacky contacts there is something that's
- 00:52
genetic unless you happen to actually be born with cat eyes then you might be [Baby with the Mother and baby opens eyes]
- 00:55
destined for life of crime-fighting but we're pretty sure that's impossible so
- 00:59
we'll knock out A.. How about Pop's blood pressure....
- 01:03
the blood pressure itself can be influenced by environmental [Doctor taking mans blood pressure]
- 01:07
factors like diet or stress or taxes a father's blood pressure is genetically
- 01:10
inherited and would not be an example of a prenatal environmental influence though if
- 01:15
you're that rare cat eyed crimefighter who knows what you're doing to [Catwoman crawling on a tree branch]
- 01:19
your dad's blood pressure. Dad worries about you out there...
- 01:23
Anyway we can forget about B okay so how about family history of heart disease
- 01:26
well this is just like last one heart disease like blood pressure can be
- 01:29
influenced by environmental factors but both are also used to determine the risk [Man's heart beating]
- 01:33
you'll have for strokes and heart disease respectively there's actually a
- 01:36
lot of similarities between these two don't tell them that they like to think [Heart disease and blood pressure stood next to each other]
- 01:40
of themselves as individual but one undeniable similarity neither one is
- 01:43
correct answer to this question that just leaves two answers D and E.. Did
- 01:47
someone forget to lift the needle because it sounds like a broken record [Person puts needle on record disc]
- 01:50
here Mothers asthma like Mother's eye color Father's blood pressure and family
- 01:54
heart disease before it is something one inherits genetically not a prenatal
- 01:58
environmental factor so we can get rid of D which leaves us with answer E
- 02:01
moment of truth, unlike all that came before it is Mothers smoking a prenatal
- 02:06
environmental factor ding ding ding we have a winner chicken dinner [A chicken]
- 02:11
Mom's bad habit unlike the other four answers is something physically done to
- 02:15
the unborn child rather than something passed along genetically in this case
- 02:19
when Mommy dearest smokes foreign chemicals enter the womb and in case you [Image of baby in womb and chemicals spread]
- 02:23
missed the first day of stupidly obvious facts 101 those smoking chemicals are
- 02:28
not good for the baby almost everything the Mother ingests ie food, drink,
- 02:32
medication, etc travel through the placenta to the fetus and can thus be
- 02:36
considered prenatal environmental factors maternal stress can also
- 02:40
influence the health of the child fetus so remember it's Lamaze class not law-
- 02:45
maze class take shmoops word for it they're no picnic... [Pregnant woman in a maze]
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