PSYCH211 Chapter Notes - Chapter 10-13: Foster Care, Testicle, Basal Metabolic Rate
6 Nov 2017
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Chapter 10: social and emotional development in preschool children. Social role a set of cultural guidelines for how a person should behave. Gender roles the culturally prescribed roles considered appropriate for males and females: social roles associated with gender among the first that children learn, gender roles often learned about during preschool years. Gender stereotypes beliefs about how males and females differ in personality traits, interests, and behaviors: all cultures have gender stereotypes. Not all cultures believe that instrumental traits typify men, whereas expressive traits typify women: this is mainly in north america. Martin (1989: told 4-year-olds about hypothetical children and asked how much the hypothetical child would like to play with masculine and feminine toys, result: children based their judgements solely o(cid:374) the h(cid:455)potheti(cid:272)al (cid:272)hild"s se(cid:454) Preschool children tend to see gender stereotypes as guidelines for behavior that are binding for all genders.
