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ERIC Number: EJ454880
Record Type: CIJE
Publication Date: 1992
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ISSN: ISSN-0009-3920
Cognitive Mechanisms in Children's Gender Stereotyping: Theoretical and Educational Implications of a Cognitive-Based Intervention.
Bigler, Rebecca S.; Liben, Lynn S.
Child Development, v63 n6 p1351-63 Dec 1992
Children who had received training in sorting pictures of men and women, and in sorting occupations according to rules that countered gender stereotypes, exhibited a more egalitarian response in subsequent measures of gender stereotyping and showed superior memory for counterstereotypic information in stories than did other children. (BC)
Descriptors: Children, Classification, Memory, Occupations, Sex Stereotypes, Thinking Skills
Publication Type: Journal Articles; Reports - Research
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Language: English
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Identifiers: Cognitive Factors; Cognitive Training; Training Effectiveness