Chapter 13 - Program 14

Question 1

How does the treatment and environment of girls and boys differ?

Answer 1

most parents say they treat both boys and girls the same but the actually don’t, enormous difference in treatment

Question 2

Parental preferences: (3)

Answer 2

1. boys are preferred by both parents for 1st birth
2. post partum depression is longer on average if a girl is born
3. latency before next child is less if girl is born first

Question 3

Attitudes toward newborns: (3)

Answer 3

1. color coding clothing
2. description of newborns differ
3. labelling gender is very important

Question 4

Differential treatment of babies: (3)

Answer 4

1. girls treated gently and boys handled roughly
2. study of the same baby dressed in boys and girls clothes where treated differently
3. older, but same baby is testing with adults and how they should react and adults react differently for each gender

Question 5

Differential treatment for older children: (3)

Answer 5

1. Atkinson and Endsley: 4-6 year olds and parents responds to (hitting playmate back, crying on first day of school); different reaction to different gender
2. Lambert: parents, child and guest. other parents would listen to conversation and the mother would stick up for son and father for daughter and other parent would agree with guest.
3. Langois and Downs: child was asked to play with both stereo types of toys. Parents response was negative (especially father) for cross-sex play

Question 6

What are the three different methodologies to show children’s behaviour?

Answer 6

1. questionnaires describing hypothetical situations
2. hearing recordings of family interaction
3. assessing reaction to real behaviour

Question 7

What are the contents of children’s rooms?

Answer 7

Rheingold and Cook- difference in décor and of toy equipment; less variation for girls than boys.

Question 8

Models in the media - TV: what gender outweighs the other?

Answer 8

male: in number of characters, occupational roles (more options), behavior gets more responses

Question 9

Consequences of sex role stereotyping?

Answer 9

• girls vs boys attending to info about occupations
• sex-role stereotyped career choices and training
• self-concept

Question 10

what is the study by Goldberg?

Answer 10

university students given articles to assess in range of topics. articles having mans name and sometimes attributed to a women. people’s assessment of the quality of the article and the competence of the person writing it differed greatly depending upon the supposed gender of the writer