Racing Cain Analysis

The Video “Racing Cain” conducted by Dr Michael Thompson is talking about how nature and nurture difference influence the boys and girls’ behavior in their early time. From Psychology perspective, Nature include the behavior genetics and evolutionary value, while the nurture include the culture and gender. In general, we think boys are naturally tough and aggressive than girls in physical. The best example is the football game, it exemplifies our traditional view of masculinity. “When boys hear themselves described as aggressive, they try to live up to that expectation.”(Racing Cain) In the Video, when the football boys was asked “ what is it that makes a man?” most of them answered “ tough, never cry, doesn’t cry a lot.” So does that means …show more content…
Instead, the Japanese culture more focus on how to be a member of a group, it is more collective. So Japanese children impacted by this culture learned how to resolving a conflict on their own. What’s more, gender difference also plays an important role in boy and girl’s behavior. In the video, Seth and his classmates are children in the preoperational stage. In this stage, children generally “representing things with words and images; using intuitive rather than logical reasoning” (Piaget 181) So an obvious difference between boys and girls is that when they tell story to express their feeling and thoughts. “Girls tend to tell stories about friendship and family, whereas boys’ stories are often much more dramatic, with lots of conflict and violence. Also, when Seth was told dying is not allowed to show in his story. He become hesitate in telling his story, this is a good to example to exemplify that children in this stage use intuitive rather than logical thinking. In another example, Kevin, who is a boys in Concrete operational stage. In this stage, children need to think logically about concrete events; grasping concrete analogies and performing arithmetical