Cognitive developmental theory
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- Created on: 29-05-13 17:23
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- Cognitive Development theories
- Piagents theory of conversion
- Gender concepts develop in a sequence which parallels cognitive changes taking place in the maturing rain.
- During the concrete operational stage, children grow to understand the concept of conversion and aren't fooled by appearance.
- Once the child understands conversion in inanimate objects, they are capable of understanding a change in a persons appearance does not change their sex.
- Once its established children imitate same sex models and activities as they think that what their sex does.
- AO2 Thompson -support gender identity
- 2yr olds were 76% correct in identifying their sex, where as 3yr olds were 90% correct.
- Salby and Frey- support gender stability.
- Asked questions "were you a little boy or a girl when you were a baby?" , only recognised gender was stable when 3/4.
- Salby and Frey-support gender consistency.
- Asked "If you played football would you be a b/g?" - children who scored high on consistency showed greater interest in same sex models
- Martin and Halverson- limitation
- The children were adopting a 'pretend' mode, didn't say what they really thought (social desirability).
- Bem's criticism- genital knowledge 40% 3-5 were capable.
- Piagents theory of conversion
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