Gender Schemas and the Salience of Gender: Individual Differences in Nonreversal Discrimination Learning.

Carter, D. Bruce; Levy, Gary D.

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ERIC Number: EJ438665

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Publication Date: 1991

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Gender Schemas and the Salience of Gender: Individual Differences in Nonreversal Discrimination Learning.

Carter, D. Bruce; Levy, Gary D.

Sex Roles: A Journal of Research, v25 n9-10 p555-67 Nov 1991

Forty-four boys and 23 girls aged 3 to 6 years attending preschools serving mostly middle class populations participated in a nonreversal discrimination task with gender typing and size of stimulus the relevant target dimensions. Results support predictions based on gender schema theory regarding salience of gender-to-gender schematic and aschematic children. (SLD)

Descriptors: Discrimination Learning, Individual Differences, Middle Class Students, Preschool Children, Preschool Education, Schemata (Cognition), Sex Differences, Sex Role

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Language: English

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