Gender ideas

Question	Answer
Martin (1989)	A study which demonstrated that age matters
Levy and Carter	A study showing there are individual differences in how children think about gender using pictures of toys and how quickly they choose the toys on the basis of being highly gender schematised
Children label themselves a boy/girl so then they...	...learn to associate things with each sex.
Gender role	Behaviour that is seen to be masculine or feminine
Highly gender schematised	Where gender is an important way of thinking about the world so info is organised according the gender appropriateness ...links to Levy and Carter study
Gender schema	A mental map/building block of knowledge about a gender
Gender stereotype	A belief that all males/females are the same as other males/females
Media	Use of TV, images, social networks, books, stories, songs, nursery rhymes to pass on information
Modelling	Behaviour (pos and neg) that a role model displays
Williams	A study that demonstrated the power of TV to create gender stereotypes
Cognitive approach to gender	Use of schemas and ideas to make sense of the world

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	Created by Toni Nursey over 8 years ago