Bem-style researchers show 5- and 8-year-olds pictures of gender-stereotyped (a girl baking) and counter-stereotyped (a boy baking) activities. A week later, children are asked to recall what they saw. Both age groups recall stereotyped images accurately but distort counter-stereotyped images—often "remembering" that the boy was a girl.
A social learning theorist would attribute the children's strong stereotypes primarily to:
- A
Innate hormonal differences in cognition
- B
Postconventional moral reasoning
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Observational learning and differential reinforcement of gender-typed behavior
- D
An inborn gender schema present at birth
Explanation
Bandura's social cognitive theory attributes gender-typed cognition to modeling, imitation, and selective reinforcement by parents, peers, and media.