| What is gender schema? | Mental representation of all knowledge we have on gender and knowledge of behaviours considered appropriate for each gender |
| What is gender schema for children in terms of in-group and outgroup | Children tend to have a much better understanding of the schema appropriate to their own gender(ingroup). They pay more attention to the information relevant to their own gender.By the age of six, children stop ignoring out-group schemas as their cognition develops |
| What is the study for gender schema(Martin and Henderson) | Martin and Henderson asked young children under the age of six to recall pictures of people and found they recalled more gender-consistent pictures (such as a male footballer) than gender-inconsistent pictures (such as a female lorry driver), supporting the idea of gender schema negatively affecting memory for behaviour that is gender-inconsistent |
| How is gender schema theory reductionist(GST) | focuses solely on cognitive schemas as the source of gender-appropriate behaviour, neglecting both biological and social contexts. However, it could become more holistic if it considered the role of differences in socialisation by parents. |
| What is a limitation of Gender schema Theory(GST) | Cannot explain why some girls may prefer action figures and some boys may prefer dolls |
| What is an advantage?(EXPLAINS WHY CHILDREN ARE MORE LIKELY TO RECALL AND IMITATE GENDER CONSISTENT BEHAVIOUR RATHER THAN GENDER INCONSISTENT) | Explains why children are more likely to recall and imitate gender-consistent behaviour rather than imitating gender-inconsistent behaviour.(Refer to Todd's study) |
| What are the two studies called? | Martin and Henderson and Todd et al |
| Things to remember? | Gender schema, in group and outgroup, studies for gender schema~ todd et al, why its reductionist, adv+disadv |
