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Television and Children's Gender Schemata.
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Calvert, Sandra L.; Huston, Aletha C. – New Directions for Child Development, 1987
Points out that the world of television activates, cultivates, and alters the gender schemata that children bring to the viewing situation. Finds that viewing can also promote creation of new schemata or modification of existing ones. (Author/RWB)
Descriptors: Behavior Patterns, Childhood Attitudes, Children, Cognitive Structures
Development of Gender Role Knowledge and Gender Constancy.
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Stangor, Charles; Ruble, Diane N. – New Directions for Child Development, 1987
Examines research which suggests that children's developing knowledge about traditional gender roles has a substantial influence on how children process information pertaining to gender. Evidence also shows that as children attain gender constancy, their behaviors become especially responsive to gender-related information. (Author/RWB)
Descriptors: Age Differences, Behavior Patterns, Children, Cognitive Development
Gender Schemata: Individual Differences and Context Effects.
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Signorella, Margaret L. – New Directions for Child Development, 1987
Supports the position that although individual differences have often been ignored, children do differ in the stereotyping of their gender identities and attitudes (gender schemata). Stresses that children with traditionally stereotyped gender schemata process information about gender differently from children who have less stereotyped schemata.…
Descriptors: Childhood Attitudes, Children, Cognitive Development, Cognitive Structures