AP PSYCHOLOGY

Detailed explanation-1: -By about age 6 or 7, children begin to understand that sex is permanent across situations and over time. Once they develop this understanding, they begin to act as members of their sex.

Detailed explanation-2: -Around 6 years of age, children develop gender constancy. This occurs once children are capable of recognizing that gender remains stable over time (i.e., gender stability) and it is consistent across situations despite changes in appearance (i.e., gender consistency).

Detailed explanation-3: -a child’s emerging sense of the permanence of being a boy or a girl, an understanding that occurs in a series of stages: gender identity, gender stability, and gender consistency.

Detailed explanation-4: -Stage 3 is known as gender constancy which occurs between 4-7 years of age. The child learns that peoples sex doesn’t change even with changes in appearance.

Detailed explanation-5: -As part of the theory, Kohlberg identified three stages in gender development: gender identity; gender stability; and gender constancy.