A Group of 5-Year-Old Children Are Shown Pictures of Children

Multiple Choice

A group of 5-year-old children are 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 children are questioned a few days later, gender schema theory would predict that they will:

A) not remember having seen any pictures.
B) accurately recall that the boys were playing with dolls and the girls with trucks and cars.
C) tend to recall having seen the boys playing with trucks and cars and the girls playing with dolls.
D) tend to recall having seen pictures of dinosaurs, cartoon characters, and TV animals, such as Big Bird and Barney.