Sroufe
- Set up a summer camp and observed how children behaved when lleft alone.
- found that they seperated themselves based on gender and anyone who crossed the gender divide was bullied.
- Shows that children will play soley with their own gender.
- Evaluation - Ethical problems, allowed children to be bullied and left a huge potential for harm. Invented an unrealistic world with no adult influence, so it's impossible tog ather valid data so lacks ecological validity.
Debate - Nature Vs Nurture
- research into this contributes to the nature nurture debate by presenting some strong evidence that gender behaviour is a result of learning. Mention Smith and Llyods research here, the parents had been brought up to treat boys and girl differently.
- Reductionist - ignores the influence of biology and nature.
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