Define gender schema theory. Illustrate how gender schema influenced your own childhood perceptions of gender
What will be an ideal response?
The student should identify that schema is defined as creating mental categories for organizing our perceptions of the world. Boys and girls create gender schema to help them understand how boys and girls are to behave. Discussion should include application to the student's childhood.
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Which of the following characterizes the hunting and gathering society?
a. high levels of structured social inequality b. highly stratified, including slavery c. open and nearly classless d. all of the above
Which of the following nations has the fewest hospital beds per capita?
a. Canada b. France c. Germany d. Sweden e. United States
Love Canal, located near Niagara Falls, is a notorious example of the failure to protect against __________
a. improper disposal of toxic wastes b. discharge of radiation from nuclear generating plants c. acid rain d. smog e. ground water run-off