A group of five-year-olds is shown pictures of children engaged in activities that violate common gender stereotypes, such as girls playing with toy vehicles and boys playing with dolls. If the group of children is questioned a few days later, gender schema theory would predict that they:
A) will not remember having seen any pictures.
B) will accurately recall that the boys were playing with dolls and the girls with trucks and cars.
C) will tend to recall having seen the boys playing with trucks and cars and the girls playing with dolls.
D) will tend to recall having seen pictures of dinosaurs, cartoon characters, and TV animals, such as Big Bird and Barney.

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According to gender schema theory, individuals organize information based on gender schemas, or mental frameworks that categorize activities and traits as masculine or feminine. Consequently, the children in the study will be more likely to remember the pictures that fit their gender schemas, which typically include trucks and cars as masculine and dolls as feminine. Therefore, they will tend to recall having seen the boys playing with trucks and cars and the girls playing with dolls.

A Group of Five-Year-Olds Is Shown Pictures of Children Engaged