10. Gender

Question 1

Cognitive developmental theory
In the first stage, usually attained by age 2, children acquire ____ ____, the ability to categorise themselves and others as either male or female.

Answer 1

GENDER IDENTITY

Question 1

The second stage, ____ ____, occurs when children understand that their gender remains constant over time.

Answer 1

GENDER STABILITY

Question 2

The third stage, ____ ____, occurs when children learn that a persons gender cannot be altered by changes in appearance or activities.

Answer 2

GENDER CONSTANCY

Question 3

The ability to categorise themselves and others as either male or female.

Answer 3

GENDER IDENTITY

Question 4

Occurs when children understand that their gender remains constant over time.

Answer 4

GENDER STABILITY

Question 5

Occurs when children learn that a persons gender cannot be altered by changes in appearance or activities.

Answer 5

GENDER CONSTANCY

Question 6

Children encode and organise information about their culture’s definitions of maleness and femaleness in ____ ____, mental representations that associate psychological characteristics with each sex.
____ ____ can be quite persistent across the life span.

Answer 6

Gender schemas

Question 7

Beliefs about appropriate behaviours of the sexes.

Answer 7

Sex-role ideology

Question 8

People everywhere share certain ____ about men and women, which appear to be rooted in both differences between the sexes and social and cultural practices and beliefs.

Answer 8

Stereotypes