The tendency of children to develop a mental pattern for being male or female in much the same way they develop other concepts, such as "dog," "bird," and "big," can best be explained by __________
A) Freudian psychoanalysis.
B) Piaget's theory of development.
C) gender schema theory.
D) social learning theory.

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Gender schema theory suggests that children learn to categorize and organize their knowledge of gender into schemas (mental frameworks). This helps them to understand and make sense of the world around them, as well as to develop expectations for how males and females should behave.

The Tendency of Children to Develop a Mental Pattern for Being