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Discuss psychological research into the factors that influence gender roles.
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Discuss psychological research into the factors that influence gender roles. There are many stereotypical ideas of how males and females should act; however it is important to consider why people conform to these and why such sex typed behaviour is present. Psychologists such as Kohlberg claim that a child's sex role concepts are created by their own active structuring of it's own experiences, this is called the cognitive developmental theory. Kohlberg states that children relate to same sex models as they have already developed a consistent gender identity and find it rewarding to behave in the same way as someone of the same sex. Kolhberg argues that children go through three stages before they achieve gender identity: the first of these is during the child's second and third year, when both sexes are aware of their sex but believe it is possible to change, later the child realises that sex...
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