Gender Schema - AO1

Question 1

What is gender schema and who created it?

Answer 1

Martin and Halverson’s (1981) account is a cognitive developmental theory which argues that children’s understanding of gender changes with age

Question 2

What is a similarity between gender schema and Kohlberg’s theory?

Answer 2

Children develop their understanding of gender by actively structuring their own learning, rather than passively observing and imitation role models

Question 3

What is schema?

Answer 3

Mental contructs that develop via experience and are used by our cognitive system to organise knowledge around particular topics

Question 4

What is gender schema?

Answer 4

Generalised representation of everything we know in relation to gender and stereotypically gender appropriate behaviours