• DOI:10.1037/0033-2909.128.6.903
Corpus ID: 14063158

Cognitive theories of early gender development.

@article{Martin2002CognitiveTO,
  title={Cognitive theories of early gender development.},
  author={C. Martin and D. Ruble and J. Szkrybalo},
  journal={Psychological bulletin},
  year={2002},
  volume={128 6},
  pages={
          903-33
        }
}

• C. Martin, D. Ruble, J. Szkrybalo
• Published 2002
• Psychology, Medicine
• Psychological bulletin

The contribution of cognitive perspectives (cognitive-developmental theory and gender schema theory) to a contemporary understanding of gender development is evaluated. Recent critiques of cognitive approaches are discussed and empirical evidence is presented to counter these critiques. Because of the centrality of early gender development to the cognitive perspective, the latest research is reviewed on how infants and toddlers discriminate the sexes and learn the attributes correlated with sex… Expand