Research a scholarly journal article on parenting (an article within the last 10 years). Provide a summary of that article. Use the information that you found and what you learned from your course rea

Page 1 of 1 PSY3520_Child/Adolescent De velopment © 2011 South University Gender Schemas Building gender biases, for example, by showing a l ittle girl in an advertisement for dolls and a little boy in an advertisement for trucks, leads to children developing gender schemas, or developing specific ideas about what it means to be a male or a female. Chris’s parents, peers, and the media influence his gender schema. Part of Chris’s gender schema is that women have babies but men do not and girls wear dresses but boys wear shorts.

In addition, Chris believes that men are firefighte rs but women are not. However, Chris’s gender schema is not entirely accurate. It is common for p reschoolers to develop gender schemas that are inaccurate because these schemas are based on t heir limited observations of the world. Chris develops his gender identity from his gender schema . Based on his observations and the rules he has made to distinguish boys from girls, he iden tifies himself as a male. At the age of three years, Chris believed that he could be a male or a female depending on his behavior. For example, he thought that if he wore a dress or makeup, he would be a girl. Now, in the preschool stage, Chris devel ops an understanding of gender constancy, or the concept that a person is permanently male or fe male, regardless of minor changes in his or her appearance.