concepts
type: Collection
type: ConceptGroup
member: gender schemas/scripts

gender and sexuality
type: Concept
narrower: gender schemas/scripts

gender schemas/scripts
type: Concept
broader: theories
broader: gender and sexuality
definition: According to gender schema theory, children's preexisting beliefs about men and women, or their gender schemas, shape their attention to novel and familiar stimuli, their interpretation of current situations, their memory of past events, and their decisions regarding their own behavior. Because media portrayals of gender and gender roles are often highly stereotypical, concern has been raised about the role of media exposure in children's development of stereotypical gender schemas. [Source: Encyclopedia of Children, Adolescents, and the Media; Schemas/Scripts, Gender]

theories
type: Concept
narrower: gender schemas/scripts