stage 1: gender labelling [2-3 years]
- understanding of gender is due to superficial characteristics e.g hair length
- can recognise others gender and their own gender i.e. know they are either a boy/girl
- but belive that their gender can change over time e.g boy believes he can grow up to be a woman
stage 2: gender stability [3-5 years]
- understand that their (own) gender is constant over time e.g boy grows up to be a man
- however belive that (other people's) gender can change across a situation e.g if a man wears a dress, they think he is a woman
stage 3: gender constancy [5-7 years]
- understand that gender is constant across time and situations
- cognitively ready to develop appropriate gender behaviour by observing and imitating same sex models, this us called self socialisation
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