PSYC 365 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Gender Role, Teen Magazine, David Eisenbud
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Film: sexy inc. our children under influence. Boys encouraged to be players with girls as accessories. Cant tell difference between photo from teen magazine and porn magazine. Too young to be sexualized, inappropriate content for a particular age. Things that don(cid:495)t have to be sexualized, being sexualized. Defining someone narrowly in terms of sexualization. Pressure to behave and dress in a promiscuous way at a young age. Defining schemas: cognitive structures that guide and organize the way in which we make sense out of information in the world. Our social ideologies construct a large number of associations between gender and other qualities and behaviors. Our culture assigns importance to gender distinctions. When do gender schema develop: boys and girls learn very early on that it is important to know gender distinctions. Martin, eisenbud, & rose (1995: researched if children used gender schemas to choose toys, 3 studies.
