Stanton believes that boys become doctors and girls become nurses.These expectations are his developing knowledge of:

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Stanton's belief that boys become doctors and girls become nurses reflects his understanding of gender roles, which are societal expectations and norms regarding appropriate behavior, activities, and positions for males and females. Gender identity refers to an individual's subjective sense of being male or female. Same sex schema and cross sex schema refer to cognitive structures or frameworks that children use to organize and interpret information about gender, with same sex schema emphasizing similarities and cross sex schema emphasizing differences between males and females. Stanton's belief about the gendered nature of professions is more closely aligned with knowledge of gender roles than with knowledge of schema theory.

Stanton Believes That Boys Become Doctors and Girls Become Nurses