FMST 210 Lecture Notes - Lecture 9: Gender Identity, Gender Role, 18 Months
24 Mar 2016
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The scientific study of gender development in children and adolescents o o. Parents reinforce sex-typed activities in children as young as 18 months. For example, many parents respond more positively when their sons play with boy-type toys such as tools or trucks, than when their sons play with girl-type toys, such as dolls and jewelry (fagot & hagan, 1991; leaper & As a result, many children show sex-typed behaviours (toy preferences) as early as. 18-24 months, which is before children can label themselves and others as male or female (campbell, Shirley & caygill, 2002; serbin, poulin-dubois, colbourne, sen, & eichstedt, 2001). o. Parents encourage gender conformity/sex-type behavior (through reinforcement, punishment, observational learning) o. How same-sex peers contribute to sex-typing in children: Children show a preference for same-sex friends as early as 3 years of age that is, after they are able to label themselves and others as male or female (corsaro, molinari, hadley & sugioka, 2003).
