Author Question: Suppose that you are talking with a 4-year-old girl. What information is this girl likely to know ... (Read 74 times)

Brittanyd9008 · **on:** Jun 21, 2018

Suppose that you are talking with a 4-year-old girl. What information is this girl likely to know about gender?

a. She probably looks longer at a picture of a man doing a feminine task, compared to all other combinations of the person's gender and the task that the person is doing.
b. She probably cannot provide accurate gender labels for photos of people.
c. She can probably explain the differences between females and males.
d. If you show her a coloring book, she probably will not select a picture that is stereotypically associated with females.

Question 2

Alex is only 6 months old. According to the research on children's knowledge about gender, Alex is likely to

a. view males and females the same; they're all just people to children that young.
b. prefer to look at pictures of people of the same gender.
c. prefer to look at pictures of people of the other gender.
d. recognize that males and females belong to different categories.