Counter Sterotypic Behavior

In the study conducted the researchers were interested in investigating whether children’s toy choice changed depending on their gender and the impact of exposure to counter stereotypic behavior impacted the children. The researchers found that there was a great diversity of toy play between individuals. They also found that some children’s toy play changed considerably but others did not. For the second part of the study the researchers found that the effect of counter stereotypic models on the children’s play was very diverse and could be categorized into three different categories, some saw a change in play style while others did not. The researchers also found that change in play behavior was majorly seen in girls than in boys. One major strength of the study was the use of multiple toys to give children variety and exposing these toys to the children 3 days before. The reason this would be important factor is that a child may not play with a toy if it is novel to him/her …show more content…
The sample size for the study was 8 students which is a very small sample size and cannot be used to form any sort of conclusion as the data collected was very small and not suggestive of an entire population. Second weakness of the study was the excessive involvement of the researchers in the study. The use of researchers to talk to the children may affect the way they play to a certain extent, as seen in the watermelon study on 18 month children for false belief. The third major issue with the study was testing all the children at the same time. The researchers found that boys did not have major differences in toy play this could have been due to peer pressure situation where boys played with similar toys because they wanted to be the same. Testing the children in different environments may provide a better result to their toy choice and play style and testing a boy playing with girls and see his toy choice without any other boys in the