Social learning and gender schema

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Psychology
Toni Nursey
Quiz by Toni Nursey, updated more than 1 year ago
Toni Nursey
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Question 1

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Modelling is...
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  • ...worth a lot of money to the right person
  • ...a person who provides and example both good and bad
  • ...a way to learn behaviour

Question 2

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Vicarious reinforcement is learning from seeing another person (the model) punished or rewarded.
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  • True
  • False

Question 3

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Perry and Bussey wanted to show that children imitate behaviour carried out by same sex role models. What were the methods? 3 are correct.
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  • Children were shown films of people taking part in an activity
  • Children were shown photos of people carrying out an activity
  • In one condition all the males did one thing and all the females another
  • In one condition there were only males
  • In one condition there were males and females doing mixture of tasks

Question 4

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Perry and Bussey found that...
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  • ...children imitated the same sex role model in the first condition and in the 2nd condition there was no difference in the activities chosen
  • ...the children chose their favourite activity regardless of gender or condition

Question 5

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[blank_start]Social learning[blank_end] theorist believe [blank_start]gender[blank_end] is learnt from modelling, [blank_start]imitation[blank_end] and vicarious [blank_start]reinforcement[blank_end]. Those who are models are most likely to be a same sex [blank_start]parent[blank_end] or friend (similar to them), [blank_start]teachers[blank_end], older siblings (more powerful than them) and parents and teachers (those who [blank_start]care[blank_end] for them).
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  • Social learning
  • Behavioural
  • Cognitive
  • gender
  • sexuality
  • behaviour
  • imitation
  • ignoring
  • impulsiveness
  • reinforcement
  • punishment
  • parent
  • carer
  • disciplinarian
  • teachers
  • policemen
  • care
  • teach

Question 6

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Praise and punishment are vital in social learning theory.
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  • True
  • False

Question 7

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Media and gender development was studied in 1975 and the followed up 2 years later....Wiliams. What did they find?
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  • That those who watched TV were more gender stereotyped that those who did not.
  • That watching TV didn't make the children more likely to imitate same sex behaviour.

Question 8

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From the list below choose 3 correct evaluations of the Williams TV study.
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  • Lots of studies have supported this theory.
  • Children in one parent families struggle to establish gender identity
  • It does not explain why 2 children of the same sex in the same home with the same role models are not the same in terms of gender development
  • Gender is biological not learnt and this is ignored by this approach
  • Gender is cognitive and so copying is irrelevant

Question 9

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Gender schema is a mental 'map' of knowledge of each gender.
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  • True
  • False

Question 10

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Gender schemas [blank_start]change[blank_end] as we grow and gain more [blank_start]knowledge[blank_end]. They are made up of what we [blank_start]know[blank_end] about each gender such as [blank_start]behaviour[blank_end], clothing, activities, personality traits and roles. Gender [blank_start]stereotypes[blank_end] may form part of this schema e.g. all builders are women.
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  • change
  • remain the same
  • knowledge
  • experience
  • education
  • know
  • see
  • hear
  • behaviour
  • attitude
  • thoughts
  • stereotypes
  • ideas

Question 11

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Martin and Halveson believed gender schemas develop with age. This age is believed to be 3years.
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  • True
  • False

Question 12

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A gender stereotype is...
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  • ...believing all males are strong, don't cry and do manual jobs while women are soft and feminine.
  • ...believing all males are similar and all women are similar

Question 13

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Which of the statements below are correct?
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  • Gender schema begins at 2 when children know the difference between boys and girls
  • When children know there are 2 sexes they are able to learn from what they see around them
  • They have fixed a rigid ideas to begin with
  • Gender schemas in older children are more flexible
  • Gender schemas dictate how men and women have to be.
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