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Parents restrict school-aged girls more than they restrict school-aged boys, and assign boys and girls different types of chores. In everyday interactions, parents give their daughters a kind of „dependence training‟, and their sons a kind of „independence training‟. Media, including cartoons and commercials are known to perpetuate gender stereotypes. Research on gender stereotypes in commercials shows that across cultures authority figures in commercials were males, and women were more likely to be shown in dependent and domestic roles, or women were more likely to sell body products, and men more likely to sell sports products. Once children learn the role of male or female, they organise their world on the basis of gender also. Children‟s attention and behaviour are guided by an internal motivation to conform to gender based sociocultural standards and stereotypes. Children also actively socialise themselves according to the gender mores of their culture. Once they have internalised gender standards, .
For example, if we're looking at your response to watermelon and want to measure
your absolute threshold, we would look for the smallest piece of watermelon that you could taste
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they begin to expect gender appropriate behaviour from themselves. Young boys may refuse to wear feminine clothes in a fancy dress competition. When playing house (ghar-ghar), girls may refuse to play the father‟s role. Once they have identified with their own gender, children may model after a powerful cultural figure of the same gender. The “gender typing” occurs when individuals are ready to
3. Children may model after a powerful ________________ of the same gender a) role model b) leader c) cultural figure d) actor
4. Women were more likely to sell ______________, and men more likely to sell _____________.
5. Fancy dress completion is generally considered for ____________
a) young boys b) young girls c) father d) mother
6. According to Piaget during which stage adolescent can apply logic more abstractly; hypothetical thinking develops _____________________
7. The misperceptions resulting from misinterpretation of information received by our sensory organs are generally known as_________________
i. Vaseline ii. Refrigerator iii. Reduce obesity through athletics iv. Floor mats
Options : a) i, iii b) ii, iv c) i, iv, d) ii, iv

Answer 1

a,c,b,a these are answer