A mother buys shirts with princesses and sparkles for her daughter and shirts with trucks and comic book heroes for her son. This is based on her belief about what girls and boys should wear. This is an example of
A) a prescriptive stereotype.
B) the kernel of truth.
C) stereotype rigidity.
D) a descriptive stereotype.

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This scenario portrays the mother imposing prescriptive gender stereotypes onto her children by limiting their clothing choices based on societal expectations of what is appropriate for girls and boys to wear.

A Mother Buys Shirts with Princesses and Sparkles for Her