Zusammenfassung der Ressource
Gender - Psychological
Explanations - Gender Schema
Theory
- Martin and Halverson - Basic gender
identity sufficient for child to absorb
gender schema
- Schema affect cognitive
processes such as memory
and attention
- Children learn gender
schemas from interactions
with others
- More interested in ingroup (same
sex) than outgroup (other sex)
schemas
- Gender beliefs are resilient to change
- Evaluation
- Do gender preferences appear
before gender identity? Gender
identity appears by 19 months
- Martin and Little - Children under
4 had strong gender stereotypes
even though no gender stability
- Memory - children recall more gender
consistent information (Martin and
Halverson) and pay more attention to
ingroup schema (Bradbard et al)
- Gender schema may lead to distortion of
inconsistent information (Martin and Halverson)
- Children may be receptive to some
gender stereotype changes (Gibbons
et al)
- Reconcile the two cognitive theories -
gender schema = organisation, gender
constancy = motivation
- IDA
- RWA - counter stereotypes don't work because
information distorted
- Freudian approach - Ingroup
Identification leads to gender
development