SOCIOAPP - Fagot (1978)

Question 1

aim

Answer 1

the role that parents may play in gender-role development.

Question 2

what type of observation - overt? naturalistic?

Answer 2

overt naturalistic observation

studying/observing the behavior of participants in natural surroundings.

Question 3

evaluation

Answer 3

high ecological validity - naturalistic enviroment

Question 4

findings

Answer 4

Parents reacted significantly more favorably to the child when the child was engaged in same-sex preferred behavior;
children were more likely to receive negative responses to cross-sex-preferred (mix girls and boys) behaviors.
Parents gave girls more positive responses when they engaged in adult-oriented, dependent behaviour
acted positively when a girl asked for help (rather than a boy)

This suggests that the parents were not fully aware of the methods they use to socialize their children.

Question 5

evaluation

Answer 5

sampling bias
The study suffers from sampling bias. The families were all linked to the university, they were all white and they were all American. In addition, 24 families is a very small sample.

generalising is limited
The ability to generalize from this sample is limited.