Gender Schema Theory

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Who proposed the gender Schema theory?
Martin and Halverson
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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
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How do children develop schemas?
From interactions with other children, adults also through media
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What does the Schema do?
Functions to organise and structure other information presented
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In-group?
Formed of attitudes, expectations and behaviour of the gender they identify with
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Out-group?
Formed of attitudes, expectations and behaviours of the opposite gender
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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
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When developing the Schema what happens to confusing information?
It gets ignored as it isn't consistent with the in-group information
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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
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What is an advantage of the longitudinal study?
High validity
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Who found that children recall higher numbers of gender consistent images, but not many inconsistent?
Halverson
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What is a limitation of the Halverson study?
Could be due to conditioning not schemas
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What did Bradbard find?
When told that the items related to their gender there was a greater interest
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What is a limitation of the Bradbard study?
Bias as it leads to children to play with certain toys
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