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Cordua et al (1979) showed children videos of male doctors, female doctors, male nurses and female nurses doing their jobs. The children were later asked to recall what they had seen. – What do you think the researchers found? – Why?

Today’s session You will learn how to...You will learn about... Interpret and evaluate evidence Use evidence to evaluate theories The cognitive approach to gender development Studies of gender development and cognition

Studies of cognition and gender Cordua et al (1979) Bauer (1993) Damon (1977) Slaby & Frey (1975)

To investigate the effect of gender on recall of gender stereotypical activities. To investigate gender differences in recall of gender stereotypical activities.

To investigate the effect of gender differences on the attention paid to each of the two models. To investigate the effect of gender differences and age differences on the attention paid to each of the two models. To investigate age differences on the attention paid to each of the two models

Slaby & Frey (1975), Bauer (1991) and Boston & Levy (1993) all found that boys are more likely to pay attention to same sex models than girls are. Can you identify an approach that could explain this?

SLTBothCognitive What can each theory explain?

Evaluative statements One advantage of the cognitive theory of gender over the social learning theory is… One advantage of the social learning theory of gender over the cognitive theory is… One problem with both theories is…

The cognitive approach… Can explain… Why children are selective about the gender models they select and the gender behaviours the imitate Why children make predictable mistakes about gender Can’t explain… Why boys have more rigid gender ideas and behaviour than girls Why children show gendered toy and peer preferences before they can label their sex

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