Powlishta (2000) conducted an experiment because she wanted to find out the target age of gender stereotyping. She looked at both young children and adults. She hypothesized that more would be used when people were judging children.

To test this hypothesis Powlishta conducted two studies. In her first study she used both children and adults. The subjects were both male and female. She used pictures from magazines and catalogues. These photographs were head and shoulders images. There were sixteen pictures in total that were equally divided of women, men, girls, and boys. Th

subjects were white. I don't think that this is correct. I think they should try to get more of a variety; maybe then there results will vary. Last, all the participants were from the same area. Some of the differences could have occurred because only in article one it used adults and children. In both article two and three they used only children.

The results of the experiment show that their hypothesis for the first task was wrong. Preschoolers' artwork was just as stereotypical as the kindergarteners' was. This shows us that gender development start at an early age. For task two the results show that their hypothesis was correct, when the students were asked to pick a sheet to draw on the boys chose the masculine ones and the girls chose the feminine ones. The same happened with task three, boys stuck to the masculine ones, and girls stuck to the feminine ones. A lot of the neutral one's were not chosen.

t as stereotypical as the kindergarteners' was. In experiments one, two, and three they all included both females and males. All the experiments were in a way similar because they all involved the participants to look at something and judge it, whether it was a picture or an actual object. Another similarity was that in all three articles all the

After looking at this experiment, I see that it is pretty biased. All the subjects that Powlishta uses are white and all come from the Midwestern area. In her first study she said that she used both children and adults. She used an equal amount of boys and girls in her study but when it came to adults she used twenty-two women and six men. That may be a reason

After the experiment the children's results were combined and compared and they found that boys were more masculine than feminine. The girls were more feminine than masculine. There was no big difference that was based on age. The results proved that their first hypothesis was true. The children had no problem answering whether the character was female or male. And when it came to the characters that were unclear the children said it was male if they were male or they said it was female if they were female. Their second hypothesis was proved wrong. The experiment showed that both female and male participants liked the male animal characters better. Their third hypothesis was also not significant. In their fourth and final hypothesis they found that girls showed that they liked all of the characters as boys showed that they liked the characters more that were based on their own gender.

To test their hypotheses they conducted an experiment that involved two parts. The used both male children and female children subjects. A large amount of the children were tested in groups while a very small amount of children were tested individually in their own homes. In the first part, the mothers of the children who were serving as hosts were called and asked when a convenient time for them would be for the experimenters to come to their houses. The mothers were also asked to call boys and girls and gather a bunch at their house so that the experimenter could conduct the experiment. The children first filled out a questionnaire that listed masculine and feminine descriptive sentences. The children were asked to rate the s

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