Question

1. Explain how the social environment and young children's cognitive limitations contribute to rigid gender stereotyping in early childhood?

2. Why do many infants show stranger anxiety in the second half of the first year? What factors can increase or decrease weariness of strangers?

Answer 1

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1. Young children have not developed the ability to critically analyse things with the use of critical thinking and hence are susceptible to formation of gender stereotyping by the social environment because the presence of multiple instances of gender stereotyping and observe behaviour can convert it into modelling of a concept.
2. Infants exhibit stranger anxiety at the age of 6 months of age and above because the brain of an infant of that age registers a stranger with the perception of unfamiliar factors which can elicit the feeling of fear. Stranger anxiety disappears itself if developmental milestones are met on time.