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6. What did Campbell (2000) discover about preferences to gender?

  • Boys at ages 9 months preferred to look at boy orientated activities and toys
  • Boys and girls ages 10 months looked at the opposite gender and their activities
  • Girls aged 7 months had no preference on which gender they watched

7. Campbell and Poulin Dubois et al's studies both support eachother, why?

  • Children pay attention to same sex stereotyping much earlier
  • Children don't see gender until 5
  • Gender effects how the child processes the Gender schema

8. Why would contradiciting schema i.e. female mechanic, not be noticed by young children

  • Children only use gender schemas to deal with certain situations
  • Gender schema's are rigid and will only pay attention to things that are consistent
  • Gender schemas are only based on observation of peers don't understand that level of information yet

9. Who found that under the age of 4 children show no signs of gender constancy, but have strong gender stereotypes?

  • Martin & Little (1990)
  • Lyotard et al (1998)
  • Wilks and James (2003)

10. What would children look at the create this gender schema

  • role models and their enviroment
  • Role models only
  • Peers and their behaviours