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Outline and evaluate two explanations of the development of gender roles A gender role is a set of expectations that prescribe how male and female should behave, think, act and feel. The argument is that why children behave in order of their gender. Is it our parents, peers causing us to behave in that way or it just develop through cognitive process? This could be explained by the Social learning theory and the cognitive development theory. These two theories are quite different to each other as social learning theory is focused on the people around us affect our behaviour and the cognitive which gives the idea that as we grow up we learn the concepts of our gender. Social learning theory gives us an idea of how gender is learned through direct and indirect reinforcement. It suggests that our parents do have influence on our gender role. Children learn gender appropriate...

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