During middle childhood, gender stereotypes: a. Intensify ...

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During middle childhood, gender stereotypes:
 
  a. Intensify
   b. Diminish
  c. Stabilize
  d. Disappear

Question 2

Your friend confides in you that she is worried about her 12-year-old daughter who used to want to be a doctor and now is talking about becoming a nurse and is no longer interested in taking advanced biology classes. How can you use the stages of gender-role development to help her understand her daughter's attitudes/behavior?
 
  What will be an ideal response?

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Answer to Question 1

A

Answer to Question 2

A survey of the gender-role acquisition stages should be included (Table 11.1). Her daughter is leaving
a stage where children in middle childhood exhibit the flexibility of gender concepts and entering
the stage of early adolescence characterized by gender intensification. Her daughter may, for a short time,
exhibit very traditional sex-typed attitudes, behaviors, and beliefs. It is not until middle adolescence that
career choices may be made. Her daughter may reestablish her interest in becoming a doctor.