When his mother offered to play leapfrog with him,Jorge protested,"I'm not going to play a girl's game!" Jorge's reaction best illustrates the impact of
A) androgyny.
B) gender schemas.
C) a pruning process.
D) collectivism.

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Jorge's reaction illustrates the impact of gender schemas, which are internal cognitive structures that organize an individual's beliefs and behaviors about gender. In this case, Jorge has a schema that associates leapfrog with girls and therefore views it as a "girl's game."

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