Gender

Question 1

Sex vs gender

Answer 1

Sex is biological

Gender is how you express or perceive yourself

Question 2

Cognitive strength and weakness

Answer 2

Strength- explains why ideas about gender are fixed and explains how children think about their gender
Weakness- rewards and punishments are important in early years of children thinking about their gender and fails to explain why the cognitive approach is incomplete when it comes to gender

Question 3

Learning approach strength and weakness

Answer 3

Strength - Shows how babies are treated differently but the way they dress and the norms of gender are changing as the years go by
Weakness- there’s more to learning about gender than imitation etc and the learning approach is only based on imitation

Question 4

Media affecting gender

Answer 4

At a young age you might be exposed to the Internet and see people of different genders then you can begin to question your own