Bigler and Liben (1992) Devised Cognitive Interventions Aimed at Reducing

question 28

Multiple Choice

Bigler and Liben (1992) devised cognitive interventions aimed at reducing 5- to 11-year old children's gender-schematic thinking about occupations for men and women.What did their results indicate?

• A)Classification training was superior to rule training.
• B)To weaken stereotypes, children had to be exposed to months of training.
• C)Children involved in the training were more likely to recall counterstereotypic information than were children in the control group.
• D)Children were unable to see the fallacies in their own rigid gender schemas.

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