According to the Cognitive-Developmental View of Gender Typing Proposed by Lawrence

question 12

Multiple Choice

According to the cognitive-developmental view of gender typing proposed by Lawrence Kohlberg, children ______.

• A) use gender as one way of organizing their perceptions of the world.
• B) form concepts about gender and then fit their behavior to the concepts.
• C) can distinguish whether they are boys or girls at the age of one year.
• D) can discriminate anatomic gender differences at the age of 18 months.

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Definitions:

Sensorimotor Stage

The first of Piaget's stages of cognitive development, where infants from birth to approximately two years old learn about the world through their senses and actions.

Operations

Flexible, reversible mental manipulations of objects, in which objects can be mentally transformed and then returned to their original states.

Precausal Thinking

A type of reasoning typical in early childhood where logic is not yet developed, leading to conclusions that don't follow logically from their premises.

Transductive Reasoning

A type of reasoning, especially noted in young children, where individuals make inferences from one specific event to another, often without understanding the underlying causal relationships.