FCFC 275 Lecture Notes - Lecture 21: Sandra Bem, Social Learning Theory, Gender Identity
19 Dec 2017
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Gender identity: gender includes all the roles and stereotypes society connects with being a boy or a girl, theories on gender identity development, behavior c. i. Behaviorism"s central concept reinforcement of proper behaviors, punishment of improper ones. c. ii. Most parents reinforce sex-typed play and chores c. ii. 1. Parents reinforce sex-typed activities in children as young as 18 months c. ii. 2. Parents of school-age children are guided by stereotypes in selecting leisure activities for children c. ii. 3. Fathers take more interest in gender-appropriateness for boys but not girls c. ii. 4. Parents neither encourage or discourage females from stereotypical female play: social learning theory d. i. Children learn gender-appropriate behaviors by observing those around them. d. ii. Availability of stereotypical sex-role models in the various media to which children are exposed d. iv. Commercials and regular programming show stereotypical sex roles for both sexes: cognitive development e. i. Kohlberg (1966) a child"s understanding of gender goes through stages based on cognitive development. e. ii.
