Cognitive explanations of gender development Flashcards
Define cognitive explanations of gender development
Focuses on how children’s think into how gender develops
Who defined the cognitive developmental theory?
Kohlberg
Define cognitive developmental theory
Children learn gender in stages and it emerges when they understand gender is fixed.
How many stages are there to Kohlberg’s theory and what are they called?
3 stages:
Stage1: Basic gender identity
Stage 2: Gender stability
Stage 3: Gender constancy
Explain stage one: basic gender identify in Kohlberg’s theory
Happens between 18 months and 3 years.
Children recognise whether they are male or female which allows them to categorise the world around them.
Explain stage 2: Gender stability into Kohlberg’s theory
Most children then recognise that people retain gender, but they rely on physical signs for this.
Explain stage 3: gender constancy into Kohlberg’s theory
They realise that gender is permanent
Who conducted research into Kohlberg’s cognitive developmental theory?
Slaby and Frey
Explain Slaby and Frey’s research into Kohlberg’s cognitive developmental theory
Asked 2-5 year olds questions to assess their level of constancy.
Showed them a film of men and women performing stereotypical tasks.
High level of gender constancy paid more attention to same sex models.
