Paulo unconsciously knows what it means to be a boy. He interacts with others, chooses activities, and interprets information in accordance with this cognitive representation of "maleness." This is an example of which gender development theory?

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This describes the gender schema theory, which proposes that children learn gender roles and form their own gender schemas through socialization experiences and then use those schemas to interpret and categorize information in the world around them.

Paulo Unconsciously Knows What It Means to Be a Boy