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Peer reviewedLeinbach, Mary Driver; And Others – Cognitive Development, 1997
Developed the Gender Stereotyping Test, a sorting task that identifies the type of information used by young children to assign objects or qualities to each sex. Found that 4-year olds with knowledge of gender identity were more likely to gender type metaphorical, but not conventional, items than children without stable, constant gender identity.…
Descriptors: Age Differences, Cognitive Development, Preschool Children, Preschool Education
