Gender+Schema


 * Gender Schema**


 * A mental representation of behavior that helps a child organize and catagorize behaviors. A child may begin to become interested with his or her perceived gender. A boy, watches football and plays with trucks and cars in the durt. Eventually that boy forms a gender schema. A girl develops a schema of how a female should act and then behaves in accordance with that schema. A girl begins to play with dolls when she perceives that this behavior fits in with her notion of what kinds of toys girls play with. When she acts appropriatly with the schema, her self-confidence rises. When she fails to act i accordance with her schema, she feels inadequae.


 * A great book about general schema is a book by Melissa K. Welch Ross called "Child Develope".



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 * A mental representation of behavior that helps a child organize and catagorize behaviors. A child may begin to become interested with his or her perceived gender. A boy, watches football and plays with trucks and cars in the dirt. Eventually that boy forms a gender schema.

A girl develops a schema of how a female should act and then behaves in accordance with that schema. A girl begins to play with baby dolls and make-up, when she perceives that this behavior fits in with her notion of what kinds of things girls play with!