sex role sterotypes

• these are the shared expectations that people within society/culture hold about what is acceptable for males and females
• the concept of masculine/feminine are learnt through association and this is them transmitted through society which is reinforced by parents/media/peers
• what is the aim of Rubin et al

  to find out if new parents stereotype their babies
• what is the method of rubin

  parents were asked to describe their new babies within 24 hours of them being born
• what were the results of rubin et al

  they found that parents of baby boys described their babies as being alert an strong whereas parents of girls said they were soft and delicate
• what is the conclusion of rubin et al

  parents do stereotype their children from a very early age despite o stereotypical behaviour being shown. for a lot of parents who know the sex of the baby before birth they already start to stereotype before the baby is born
• what is the aim of seavey et al

  to see if the gender label attached to a baby affected adult responses
• what is the method of seavey et al

  three month old was dressed in a yellow baby suit. one third of participants were told baby was male the other female and the final no gender
• what was the results of seavey et al

  when they were labelled as female they were more likely to play with the child with the doll and with males the plastic ring was used
• what was the conclusion of seavey et al

  adults will interact differently depending on whether they believe them to be male or female
• what was the method of ingalhalikar 2014

  scanned 949 brains of young men and women and they used hi-tech diffusion MRI imaging and they mapped connections between different parts of the brain
• what were the results of ingalhalikar?

  womens brains have far better connections between left and right side of the brain and mens display more intense acitivty within the brains individual parts
• what was the conclusions of ingalhalikar

  female brains are hard wired to cope better with several tasks whereas males prefer to focus on one single complex task