WMNST 325 Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Essentialism, Relational Aggression, Menarche
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The basics of how children learn gendered behavior from their environment. Reinforcement: how a behavior is strengthened; when you perform behavior and get positive response, you"ll do behavior more and vice versa. Imitation: copying someone else"s behavior; baby duck following mommy duck. Observational learning: watching others" behavior and storing it for later use. Women shown as passive vs active, in domestic roles, underrepresented, hyper-sexualized. What"s happening in brain to lead to a behavior. Gender schema theory: gender schema information learned very early, and guides the individual in thinking and understanding gender. Individuals become gender typed or identi ed using schema. Gender-schematic: highly gender-typed; a stronger or rigid gender schema or stricter reliance on gender to make sense of the world. Gender-aschematic: less gender-typed; a less strong or exible gender schema and less reliance on gender to make sense of the world.
