{"id":8671,"date":"2019-05-22T16:10:15","date_gmt":"2019-05-22T16:10:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/own-sex_schema\/"},"modified":"2019-05-22T16:10:15","modified_gmt":"2019-05-22T16:10:15","slug":"own-sex_schema","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/own-sex_schema\/","title":{"rendered":"Own-sex schema"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Organized sets of beliefs about the characteristics associated with one&#8217;s own sex. &nbsp;According to <a href=\"http:\/\/psych.cornell.edu\/sites\/default\/files\/Gender%20Schema%20Theory.pdf\" class=\"cc-route-enabled\" target=\"_self\" data-editable-link=\"http:\/\/psych.cornell.edu\/sites\/default\/files\/Gender%20Schema%20Theory.pdf&amp;target=_self\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">gender schema theory<\/a>, originally formulated by <a href=\"http:\/\/psych.cornell.edu\/people\/sandra-bem\" class=\"cc-route-enabled\" target=\"_self\" data-editable-link=\"http:\/\/psych.cornell.edu\/people\/sandra-bem&amp;target=_self\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Sandra L. Bem<\/a> in 1981, there are two levels of schemata that concern such beliefs. &nbsp;One is the superordinate schema that is the repository for stereotypes that children and adults have about the defining characteristics of each sex. &nbsp;It includes, for example, of information about such characteristics such that boys are better at things mechanical. &nbsp;Subordinated to this is the own-zex schema that is more specific and more detailed in terms of culturally sex-appropiate behavior. &nbsp;As such, it contains scripts and action plans for such behavior (e.g., children&#8217;s belief that boys will better at repairing cars). &nbsp;One view is that the superordinate schema provides the building blocks upon which own-sex schema develop. &nbsp;Another is that the relationship is not hierarchical, but that the two schemata bidirectionally interact with each other during development. &nbsp;If there is something like an own-sex schema, then one can posit an other-sex schema: one containing action plans and scripts for behaviors appropriate to the other sex. &nbsp; &nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>See <a href=\"action_theory\">Action theory<\/a>, <a href=\"gender_identity\">Gender identity<\/a>, <a href=\"sex\">Sex<\/a>, <a href=\"schema\">Schema<\/a><\/p>\n<p><\/body><\/html><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Organized sets of beliefs about the characteristics associated with one&#8217;s own sex. &nbsp;According to gender schema theory, originally formulated by Sandra L. Bem in 1981, there are two levels of schemata that concern such beliefs. &nbsp;One is the superordinate schema that is the repository for stereotypes that children and adults have about the defining characteristics &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/own-sex_schema\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Own-sex schema&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[2],"class_list":["post-8671","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-glossary","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8671","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8671"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8671\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8671"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8671"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8671"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}