The text reports a study in which female college students interacted with a 6-month-old infant who was either a boy or a girl, and who was dressed as either a boy or a girl. (For example, sometimes a boy was dressed as a boy, sometimes he was dressed as a girl.) Results demonstrate the importance of which of the following factors in the development of gender identity?

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As children progressively become more capable of understanding what it means to be a girl or a boy, their ideas about culturally appropriate behavior for females and males become clearer, they become socialized. In the study by Smith and Lloyd (1978) described in this question, the college students treated the baby differently depending upon the child's assumed sex, conveying signals as to what is culturally appropriate male behavior and culturally appropriate female behavior.

The Text Reports a Study in Which Female College Students