Friday, October 22, 2010

Gender Typing (are there flavors as well?) Part 2

Lawrence Kohlberg's Stages of Moral Development. (Links to cognitive development.)




 My recent blog entry elaborated on one of the four psychological aspects of Gender Typing. Here, in this second entry of part two, I will be finishing off the psychological aspects of gender typing.Albert Bendera brings the social cognitive view back onto the table. Cognitive is a term used to describe thinking and or ideas. According to the social cognitive theory, individual experience causes gender development. For example, a child may model their gender by learning through observation or through the behaviors of others. Essentially, the individual learns through their environment, in that a boy will observe his father to learn the attitudes and ideals that come enrolled with the male gender.


The cognitive development stage seems to be an addition to the the social cognitive stage of psychological gender typing. Basically the child learns certain ideals and concepts that come with the role of that particular gender. Also, the child can successfully distinguish between female and male. Moreover, and probably most importantly, the child begins to understand that their particular gender is permanent.

The last and final stage of psychological category of gender typing is the gender schema theory. Again, this particular stage seems to be a simple addition to the cognitive developmental stage. However, it is important to note that the gender schema theory is not concerned with the cognitive development approach, even though it shares similar characteristics. Through the gender schema theory, the child learns the expectations of a their gender in society. For example, they may learn that a man is supposed to do his role in supporting the family

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