Cognitive Development Although it may seem cute when a boy …show more content…
Even at these young ages children learn to identify with their group and learn to find the ways in which they are different. How they identify establishes their attitudes, values, and roles. Once children have found their gender identity they tend to conform to internal motivations on behaving to the specific way of their gender consistent with their self-concept (Helgeson, 2012) and thus behaving in ways society and culture has told them that boys or girls behave.
Gender by Choice Choice of ones gender becomes obsolete. Society has made it difficult to allow people to have the choice in the ways in which they conform. In early childhood most experiences that are encountered are not by choice, but they give us direction of our outlook and insight into how the world works (Vasilopoulou, 2014). Stores clothing, health materials, and beauty products are all segregated by gender; parents tell us that we are either girl or boy, and society in general expects us to be one or the either and to behave that way.