The Role of Learning in Child Development

Question 1

How is social learning theory an explanation of gender identity

Answer 1

Children learn gender identity from observing world around them

Question 1

Theory of gender identity in children

Answer 1

Social learning theory

Question 2

What is vicarious reinforcement

Answer 2

Behaviour is likely to be imitated if rewarded, and not so if punished

Question 3

Vicarious reinforcement in gender identity in children

Answer 3

If behaviour is reinforced, child is motivated to imitate it in future
If punished child will avoid it
Models response to child’s gender, the way they respond make them likely to imitate it

Question 4

What did Beverly Fagot (1978) observe

Answer 4

Observational study of toddlers playing with toys
Noted praise and punishments received from parents

Question 5

What did Beverly Fagot (1978) find out

Answer 5

Boys reinforced gender appropriate toys and punished for playing with dolls

Question 6

Margaret Mead (1935) what did she study

Answer 6

3 tribes in Papua New Guinea

Question 7

What did Margaret Mead (1935) find in the tribes

Answer 7

Arpesh tribe = both men and women were peaceful and avoided warfare
Mondugumor = Both men and women were warlike
T Chambuli = men decorated themselves and woen worked

Question 8

Conclusion of Margaret Mead (1935)

Answer 8

Gender socialisation has changed in the past 30-40yrs
Social IT cannot account for cognitive influences
Cultural differences in tribes
Similarities in gender behaviours throughout the world (suggests genetic affect)