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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