The theory that emphasizes the role of selective information gathering and recall in the development of sex stereotypes, patterns of gender-appropriate behavior, and gender-appropriate preferences is

a. biosocial theory.
b. Kohlberg's cognitive-developmental theory.
c. psychoanalytic theory.
d. gender-schema theory.


D

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