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AP Psychology 1.5 Developmental Psychology. Which of the following is an environmental prenatal influence?

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Here's your shmoop du jour brought to you by lamaze classes [Man teaching lamaze class]

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the instructor can't figure out why expecting couples keep enrolling

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He figures if they really like a good maze okay here's our question which of the

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following is an environmental prenatal influence and here your potential answers

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....so what's this question asking well there are two

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types of prenatal influences environmental and genetic basically [Pregnant woman]

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influences that are inherited genetically or those affected by things

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physically done to the unborn baby a classic nature versus nurture situation

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and not the classic nature versus nurture mind you that was Bob nature [Boys boxing in a ring]

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versus Harry nurture 13 rounds in 1954 catch it on ESPN Classic the next time

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you get a chance okay.... let's take a look at mother's eye color

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well unless we're talking about those tacky contacts there is something that's

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genetic unless you happen to actually be born with cat eyes then you might be [Baby with the Mother and baby opens eyes]

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destined for life of crime-fighting but we're pretty sure that's impossible so

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we'll knock out A.. How about Pop's blood pressure....

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the blood pressure itself can be influenced by environmental [Doctor taking mans blood pressure]

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factors like diet or stress or taxes a father's blood pressure is genetically

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inherited and would not be an example of a prenatal environmental influence though if

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you're that rare cat eyed crimefighter who knows what you're doing to [Catwoman crawling on a tree branch]

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your dad's blood pressure. Dad worries about you out there...

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Anyway we can forget about B okay so how about family history of heart disease

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well this is just like last one heart disease like blood pressure can be

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influenced by environmental factors but both are also used to determine the risk [Man's heart beating]

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you'll have for strokes and heart disease respectively there's actually a

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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]

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of themselves as individual but one undeniable similarity neither one is

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correct answer to this question that just leaves two answers D and E.. Did

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someone forget to lift the needle because it sounds like a broken record [Person puts needle on record disc]

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here Mothers asthma like Mother's eye color Father's blood pressure and family

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heart disease before it is something one inherits genetically not a prenatal

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environmental factor so we can get rid of D which leaves us with answer E

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moment of truth, unlike all that came before it is Mothers smoking a prenatal

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environmental factor ding ding ding we have a winner chicken dinner [A chicken]

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Mom's bad habit unlike the other four answers is something physically done to

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the unborn child rather than something passed along genetically in this case

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when Mommy dearest smokes foreign chemicals enter the womb and in case you [Image of baby in womb and chemicals spread]

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missed the first day of stupidly obvious facts 101 those smoking chemicals are

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not good for the baby almost everything the Mother ingests ie food, drink,

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medication, etc travel through the placenta to the fetus and can thus be

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considered prenatal environmental factors maternal stress can also

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influence the health of the child fetus so remember it's Lamaze class not law-

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maze class take shmoops word for it they're no picnic... [Pregnant woman in a maze]

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