STL of Gender Devlopment Flashcards
1
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Assumption of STL on gender
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- Role of social context (nurture)
2. Through observation of parents and peers, as well as Eisner culture through media
2
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How can children learn through direct reinforcement
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- More likely to be praised for gender appropriate behaviour (such as rough playing) and punished for girly behaviour
- Called differential reinforcement
- Also imitate behaviour that is seen to be reinforced
3
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Learning through vicarious reinforcement
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- If consequences of behaviour are favourable more likely to be imitated
- Mother praised for being pretty likey to be imitated
4
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Identification and modelling
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- Role models in media and in immediate environment
- Tend to be of high status and same sex
- Children model same sex behaviour
5
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Mediational process
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- Attention
- Retention
- Motivation
- Motor reproduction
6
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Supporting evidence
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- 4-6 month old babies dressed half time in boy/girl clothes
- Babies assumed to be boys given hammer toy and encouraged to be advetrouos and active
- Girls handed soft toy and told they were pretty
- Suggests gender appropriate behaviour through differential reinforcement stamped in from an early age
7
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Explains changing gender roles in society
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- Less clear cut destinations in masculine and feminine behaviour
- Explained by shift in social expectations meaning new behaviour reinforced
- No change in biology
8
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Fails to consider age on development
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- Study showed only children of certain age would mimic behaviour
- So ignores influence of age and limitations on child’s gender awareness as says it’s from birth
9
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Money study against STL and for biological
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- Ignores genes and chromosomes
- David Reimer could not adjust, despite female behaviour being reinforced, shows cannot overide biology
- Biosocial suggetss that innate differences are reinforced through social interactions
