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A schema can be strengthened or changed as a result of experience:

e.g. I know that supermarkets change their shelves around at Christmas time.

So, children put together a schema of what is normal for each gender … and how to grow up into that gender.

But is this stereotyping?

1. Gender identity is the biological status

of being a male or female.

2. The male chromosome is XY.

3. The female sex organ are .he ovaries?

4. Male sex organs are the

vagina and clitoris.

5. A Female hormone is

Oestrogen.

6. Freud suggested the most important stage of the psychosexual stages development is the latent stage.

7. In the Electra stage, girls form their

gender identity via resolution not repression

of their feelings.

8. The second stage of the SLT theory

is reinforcement.

9. Gender schema theory is based on gender stereotypes.

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What occurs at each stage?

PERSONAL, LEARNING AND THINKING SKILLS:

Ages & Stages:

learning objective:

To explore how schemas are used to form our gender identity.

team worker

SELF MANAGER

children identify as either a boy or a girl and identify others.

Gender identification: up to 3 years –

Gender realisation: 3 to 5 years –

Gender emergence: 6+ years –

LITERACY FOCUS:

To use paragraphs correctly.

boys realise they will become men and girls realise they will become women.

Learning Outcomes:

To be able to evaluate the gender schema theory.

To be able to describe how the gender schema theory works.

To be able to identify the three stages of the gender schema theory.

they accumulate more knowledge about their own gender than the opposite one and therefore form gender schemas.

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Do Now

Remind me...

What is a Schema?

Provide typical examples for traditional

gender roles for men and women

e.g. women do the housework.

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Nowhere is this more apparent than with toys …

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So how do schemas apply to gender development?

Task

Please speak to your peer partner and jot down some suggestions.

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Two Year 11 girls decided to try this out at “toys r us” a few years ago.

They tipped out a load of toys and let the 3-year olds loose …

A young boy and his father are in a car accident.  The father dies at the scene. The boy is transported to the hospital, taken immediately into surgery... but the surgeon steps out of the operating room and says, "I can't operate on this boy - he is my son!"

The question:  Who is the surgeon?

The answer:

The surgeon is the boy’s mother.

So what stage of gender schema theory are you at?

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Results:

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Not everyone is the same though …

Individual Differences:

Children who are stereotyped (“gender-schematised”) look for evidence to back up that prejudice while others are more flexible

The less usual gender occupations are done by people who are less gender-schematised (i.e. more flexible). E.g. male nurses, female truck drivers

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Martin (1989)

Young children have a stereotype of boys liking boys’ toys and girls liking girls’ toys. Older children are more able to accept that boys sometimes play with girls’ toys and vice versa.

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Conclusion?

Young children have a stereotyped view of gender; older ones are more flexible.

- that’s

1 in 100 playgroup workers who is male

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Evaluation

+ Of all these, schema theory seems to be the best explanation because it makes most sense (“ecologically valid”) and is the easiest to test.

- But it ignores genes & hormones.

- parents and those children who are not strongly gender-schematised.

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True or false?

Gender stereotypes in the media

Work in groups of three, using your iPads, create an advert for a product using gender stereotypes.

Please email your completed advert to me.

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