Little Dennis pays more attention to what basketball players do than how they dress because he recalls his older brother saying, "Boys care more about slam dunking than looking pretty on the court." This illustrates the influence of _____ on the attention and motivational processes of gender identity.

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Little Dennis is influenced by his own-sex schema, which is a cognitive framework that organizes information based on gender, leading him to focus more on activities associated with his gender, like slam dunking, rather than appearance.

Little Dennis Pays More Attention to What Basketball Players Do