Chapter 3 In Your Everyday Life

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Answering these questions will help you make these concepts more personally meaningful, and therefore more memorable.

  1. What impresses you the most about infants’ abilities, and why?

  2. What do you think about the idea that, genetically speaking, we are all nearly identical twins?

  3. What kinds of mistakes do you think parents of the past made? What mistakes do you think today’s parents might be making?

  4. What skills did you practice the most as a child? Which have you continued to use? How do you think this affected your brain development?

  5. Imagine your friend says, “Personality (or intelligence) is in the genes.” How would you respond?

  6. What are the most positive or most negative things you remember about your own adolescence? Who do you credit or blame more—your parents or your peers?

  7. Think about a difficult decision you had to make as a teenager. What did you do? Would you do things differently now?

  8. What do you think makes a person an adult? Do you feel like an adult? Why or why not?

  9. Imagining the future, how do you think you might change? How might you stay the same?

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