Cognitive explanation: Gender schema theory

Question 1

whose theory is gender schema theory

Answer 1

Martin and Halverson (1981)

Question 2

Gender schemas

Answer 2

children learn about gender roles from the culture in which they live.

Question 3

How are Gender schemas formed

Answer 3

Bem

Question 4

Resilience of gender beliefs

Answer 4

• gender beliefs lead children to hold vert fixed gender attitudes as they ignore any information they encounter that isn’t consistent with in-group information
• e.g if a boy sees a film with a male nurse, its ignored as male is not behaving consistently with the in group schema
• no altering of gender beliefs

Question 5

Schema

Answer 5

• A mental framework that helps organise and interpret information in the brain.
• Helps an individual to make sense of new information

Question 6

In-group schemas

Answer 6

• the groups with which a person identifies

Question 7

Out-group schemas

Answer 7

• the group opposite to which a person identifies

Question 8

Peer relationships