A cognitive developmental study of children's sex-role development

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dc.contributor.advisorDawes, Andrewen_ZA
dc.contributor.authorVentress, Keithen_ZA
dc.date.accessioned2015-02-11T14:17:41Z
dc.date.available2015-02-11T14:17:41Z
dc.date.issued1975en_ZA
dc.descriptionIncludes bibliographical references.en_ZA
dc.description.abstractThe present study of the acquisition and development of the child's sex-typed behaviours and attitudes is pursued in the Piagetian cognitive developmental tradition. Qualitative changes in the child's perceptions of himself and his physical and social world are described as changes in mental structure. The cognitive structures are made up of categories of experience or schemas. The schemas are organizations of actions upon objects which possess the quality of mobility. Development of the cognitive structure is facilitated by old structures being continually fitted to new functions, and new structures evolving to fill old functions under changed circumstances. Through age and experience, schemas for hierarchical integrations of increasing differentiation moving from predominant use of lower to higher level operations. This study accounts for the qualitative changes in the child's gender self-concept with age development by investigating the changes in the structure of the child's cognitive schema. The cognitive developmental approach evidenced in the work of Piaget and Inhelder deals comprehensively with the acquisition and general stabilization of constancies in the physical world; the concepts of number, weight, mass, time, etc., only recently has it been proposed to account for the development of gender concepts (Kohlberg, 1966).en_ZA
dc.identifier.apacitationVentress, K. (1975). <i>A cognitive developmental study of children's sex-role development</i>. (Thesis). University of Cape Town ,Faculty of Humanities ,Department of Psychology. Retrieved from http://hdl.handle.net/11427/12458en_ZA
dc.identifier.chicagocitationVentress, Keith. <i>"A cognitive developmental study of children's sex-role development."</i> Thesis., University of Cape Town ,Faculty of Humanities ,Department of Psychology, 1975. http://hdl.handle.net/11427/12458en_ZA
dc.identifier.citationVentress, K. 1975. A cognitive developmental study of children's sex-role development. University of Cape Town.en_ZA
dc.identifier.ris TY - Thesis / Dissertation AU - Ventress, Keith AB - The present study of the acquisition and development of the child's sex-typed behaviours and attitudes is pursued in the Piagetian cognitive developmental tradition. Qualitative changes in the child's perceptions of himself and his physical and social world are described as changes in mental structure. The cognitive structures are made up of categories of experience or schemas. The schemas are organizations of actions upon objects which possess the quality of mobility. Development of the cognitive structure is facilitated by old structures being continually fitted to new functions, and new structures evolving to fill old functions under changed circumstances. Through age and experience, schemas for hierarchical integrations of increasing differentiation moving from predominant use of lower to higher level operations. This study accounts for the qualitative changes in the child's gender self-concept with age development by investigating the changes in the structure of the child's cognitive schema. The cognitive developmental approach evidenced in the work of Piaget and Inhelder deals comprehensively with the acquisition and general stabilization of constancies in the physical world; the concepts of number, weight, mass, time, etc., only recently has it been proposed to account for the development of gender concepts (Kohlberg, 1966). DA - 1975 DB - OpenUCT DP - University of Cape Town LK - https://open.uct.ac.za PB - University of Cape Town PY - 1975 T1 - A cognitive developmental study of children's sex-role development TI - A cognitive developmental study of children's sex-role development UR - http://hdl.handle.net/11427/12458 ER - en_ZA
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/11427/12458
dc.identifier.vancouvercitationVentress K. A cognitive developmental study of children's sex-role development. [Thesis]. University of Cape Town ,Faculty of Humanities ,Department of Psychology, 1975 [cited yyyy month dd]. Available from: http://hdl.handle.net/11427/12458en_ZA
dc.language.isoengen_ZA
dc.publisher.departmentDepartment of Psychologyen_ZA
dc.publisher.facultyFaculty of Humanitiesen_ZA
dc.publisher.institutionUniversity of Cape Town
dc.subject.otherPsychologyen_ZA
dc.titleA cognitive developmental study of children's sex-role developmenten_ZA
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