Television and Children's Gender Schemata.

Calvert, Sandra L.; Huston, Aletha C.

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Publication Date: 1987

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Television and Children's Gender Schemata.

Calvert, Sandra L.; Huston, Aletha C.

New Directions for Child Development, n38 p75-88 Win 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, Individual Differences, Influences, Memory, Schemata (Cognition), Sex Stereotypes, Sexual Identity, Television Research, Television Viewing

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Language: English

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