PSYC 208 Lecture Notes - Gender Role, 18 Months, Working Memory
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8 2 of 3: brief review of research findings. 1. sex-typed activities in children as young as 18 months. As children"s gender knowledge increases from 3-5 years of age, they pay more attention to same-sex models (frey & ruble, 1992). However, children show preferences for toys that are stereotypically congruent with gender norms as early as 18-24 months, which is before they can even label themselves as a boy/male or girl/female (campbell, shirley & caygill, 2002; serbin, poulin-dubois, colbourne, sen, & eichstedt, 2001). Cognitive factors that influence sex-typed behaviour: high levels of stereotypical knowledge can be observed amongst children aged 3 to 4. 5. Further increases in stereotypical knowledge can be observed amongst children between 4. 5 and 5 years. From 3-5 years of age, gender stereotype flexibility is very low. Additionally, children with a later peak in stereotype rigidity reached a lower level of flexibility at age 10 (in comparison to the children who showed an early peak in stereotype rigidity).
