Gender Roles
What gender has the stereotypes Dependent, Artistic, and Affectionate?
Female
At infancy are gender differences small or large?
Gender differences are small and rather inconsistant.
What word is defined as: A complex cluster of traits and behaviors that are considered stereotypical of females or of males?
What is Gender Role
At what age can children distinguish between picture of girls and boys?
2-2 1/2 y/o
Who talks about their feelings more to parents the boy infant or the girl infants?
Girls tend to talk about their feelings more than boys do.
What word is defined as: The concept that one's gender remains the same despite superficial changes in appearance or behavior?
What is Gender Constancy
Does wrestling fit inside the stereotype for women?
No
Do boys or girls show greater verbal ability?
Girls show greater verbal ability than boys.
What word is defined as: The view that one's knowledge of the gender schema in one's society (the behavior patterns that are considered appropriate for men and women) guides one's assumption of gender-typed preferences and behavior patterns?
What is Gender-Schema Theory
Do boys tend to want to help their fathers or their mothers?
Their fathers
Are mothers or fathers more likely to communicate norms for gender-typed behaviors to their children?
Fathers are more likely than mothers to communicate norms for gender-typed behaviors to their children. (pg.339)
What word is defined as: The concept that one's gender is a permanent feature?
What is Gender Stability.
In the common stereotype what toys do boys want to play with? What toys do girls prefer to play with?
Boys play with trucks and cars. Girls want to play with dolls.
According to Kohlberg what three concepts are involved in gender typing?
Gender identity, gender stability, and gender constancy.
What word is defined as: Knowledge that one is female or male. Also, the name of the first stage in Kohlberg's cognitive-developmental theory of the assumption of gender roles?
What is Gender Identity