DEVELOPMENTAL PSYCHOLOGY
ADULTHOOD PHYSICAL COGNITIVE AND SOCIAL DEVELOPMENT
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Question
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being reinforced for gender-appropriate behaviors
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valuing characteristics associated with the opposite gender
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learning to classify oneself as male or female.
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responding to praise from parents, teachers, and peers
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Detailed explanation-1: -Cognitive development theory The cognitive development approach to gender, pioneered by Lawrence Kohlberg, contends that children’s ideas about gender develop in a stage-like manner. That is, as children gain knowledge of the gendered world around them, their thinking about gender changes in qualitative ways.
Detailed explanation-2: -Kohlberg’s cognitive developmental theory of gender is divided into three stages, the first being gender identity, the second being gender stability, and the third gender constancy. Each stage represents a different level of understanding that a child goes through during development.
Detailed explanation-3: -Cognitive social learning theory suggests that boys and girls do not need to be directly rewarded or punished in order to learn which behaviors are appropriate to imitate. Instead, they may learn appropriate gender role behaviors simply by observing the rewards and punishments directed toward other same-gender models.
Detailed explanation-4: -Gender role theory posits that boys and girls learn the appropriate behavior and attitudes from the family and overall culture in which they grow up, and that non-physical gender differences are a product of socialization.