A model is proposed in which stereotypes are assumed to function as schemas that serve to organize and structure information. The thesis is advanced that sex stereotyping is a normal cognitive process and is best examined in terms of information-processing constructs. (Author/RH)

This study investigated whether (a) awareness of sex typing in literature exists in preschool children; (b) children express sex role character preferences; and (c) their recall was affected by reversed sex roles. (ED)

Examined developmental differences in the effect of stereotype manipulations on the construction of new memories, and the relation between stereotyped activity preferences and memory for gender-related information among four-, six-, and eight-year olds. Contrary to expectations, stereotype manipulation effects interacted with gender; effects were…