In a video in which children were asked “What do you want to be when you grow up?”, we observed that some careers were gender-neutral whereas other careers seemed more gender-stereotypical. Which developmental theme can best explain these results?单项选择题
A
Genetics vs. environment
B
Continuity vs. discontinuity
C
Experimental vs. naturalistic
D
Passive vs. active child

Question

In a video in which children were asked “What do you want to be when you grow up?”, we observed that some careers were gender-neutral whereas other careers seemed more gender-stereotypical. Which developmental theme can best explain these results?单项选择题

A

Genetics vs. environment

B

Continuity vs. discontinuity

C

Experimental vs. naturalistic

D

Passive vs. active child

BlackTom AI · Accepted Answer

Passive vs. active child posits that children are not just passive recipients of external influences but play an active role in selecting, interpreting, and shaping their own development. This theme explains why some careers appear gender-neutral while others evoke strong gender-typed responses.

1) Relevant knowledge points and concepts
- Passive vs. active child: children either absorb environmental inputs passively or actively construct their own understanding and choices.
- Gender-schema and social cognitive theories: children form mental categories about gender and then seek, attend to, and remember information consistent with those categories.
- Role of social cues and media: exposure to gender-typed models makes some careers strongly associated with one gender.

2) Step-by-step reasoning
- Children watch adults, media, and peers and form schemas about which jobs "go with" which gender.
- For strongly gender-typed careers (e.g., nurse, firefighter), cultural cues are frequent and consistent, so children’s active construction of gender categories leads them to assign those careers to one gender.
- For careers with mixed or neutral cues (e.g., teacher in some contexts, artist), children receive less consistent gendered information, so their active selection produces more gender-neutral responses.
- Because children actively filter and generalize these cues, a single stimulus set can produce a mix of neutral and stereotyped answers depending on how strongly gendered the career cues are.

3) Intermediate steps (conceptual, not numerical)
- Observation → internal gender schema formation → selective attention to gender-consistent models → career labeling as gender-typed or neutral.

4) Why the correct answer is correct
- The observed pattern (some careers neutral, others stereotyped) best fits a model in which children actively build and apply gender schemas to categorize careers, rather than being merely passive recipients of information.

5) Why other options are incorrect
- Genetics vs. environment: concerns origins of traits (nature/nurture) but does not explain differing responses across career types in a single observation.
- Continuity vs. discontinuity: concerns whether development is gradual or stage-like, not the active construction of gendered beliefs.
- Experimental vs. naturalistic: refers to research methods, not developmental mechanisms producing stereotyped versus neutral responses.

6) Conclusion
The pattern is best explained by the Passive vs. active child theme. This matches the provided answer: Passive vs. active child.

In a video in which children were asked “What do you want to be when you grow up?”, we observed that some careers were gender-neutral whereas other careers seemed more gender-stereotypical. Which developmental theme can best explain these results?单项选择题

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