Gender Schema Theory 0.0 / 5 ? PsychologyGenderA2/A-levelAQA Created by: AlanaCreated on: 19-05-16 09:15 Who proposed the gender Schema theory? Martin and Halverson 1 of 14 What does the theory claim? That basic gender identity is sufficient enough for a child to know their gender at the age of 2-3 2 of 14 How do children develop schemas? From interactions with other children, adults also through media 3 of 14 What does the Schema do? Functions to organise and structure other information presented 4 of 14 In-group? Formed of attitudes, expectations and behaviour of the gender they identify with 5 of 14 Out-group? Formed of attitudes, expectations and behaviours of the opposite gender 6 of 14 What happens when an individual sees their in-group positively? Motivates them to be more like their own gender and develop the in-group schema 7 of 14 When developing the Schema what happens to confusing information? It gets ignored as it isn't consistent with the in-group information 8 of 14 What did Campbell's longitudinal study find? Children selectively attend to the same sex role model, shows babies develop gender schemas before they can talk and drives their attention 9 of 14 What is an advantage of the longitudinal study? High validity 10 of 14 Who found that children recall higher numbers of gender consistent images, but not many inconsistent? Halverson 11 of 14 What is a limitation of the Halverson study? Could be due to conditioning not schemas 12 of 14 What did Bradbard find? When told that the items related to their gender there was a greater interest 13 of 14 What is a limitation of the Bradbard study? Bias as it leads to children to play with certain toys 14 of 14
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