Browsing by Subject "Stereotype (Psychology)"
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Item An analysis of sex-role stereotyping and pupil achievement(Texas Tech University, 1980-12) Whitfield, CNot availableItem Sex-role stereotypes in sports and games(Texas Tech University, 1979-08) Creel, Lonna RichardsonThe purpose of this study was to develop an instrument which would measure sex-role stereotyping in children through selected sport and game objects. Eighty-seven children (^2 boys and kS girls) aged 6, 8, and 10 were randomly selected as subjects. The instrument which was devised contained 19 pictures consisting of objects used in various sports and games. Subjects were instructed to look at each picture and decide if they thought that boys play with the object, if girls do, or if both boys and girls play with the object. Subjects made their responses by placing an "X" in one of three boxes with the headings "BOYS", "GIRLS", and "BOYS AND GIRLS". If they did not recognize the object, they were to mark their response in the box with the question mark. Information concerning each subject's age, sex, ethnic group, brother-sister status, and parental status was obtained to determine the relationship between these variables and stereotyping. Chi Square was computed to determine if there were significant changes in stereotyping when compared with each variable. Reliability of the instrument was determined by calculating a contingency coefficient and the percentage of repeatability for each activity. A test-retest method was used in which one week elapsed before the second test was administered. The reliability coefficient for the 19 activities ranged from A? to .98. The low contingency coefficient for some of the activities may be attributed to the fact that several subjects did not recognize the activities and resorted to guessing. Findings of this study indicated that sex-role stereotyping does exist in sports and games. Stereotyping diminished with age and was not limited to a particular sex. Sex, ethnic group, brother-sister status, and parental status had little effect on stereotyping by the subjects.Item The effect of a planned curriculum on children's perceptions of the role of women in selected careers(Texas Tech University, 1978-08) Whitfield, Eddie LoisNot availableItem The relationship between response speed and stereotyped behavior in children(Texas Tech University, 1986-08) Plumlee, Gary G.The relationship between response latency and stereotyped behavior in young children was investigated using a concept identification task. Thirty-eight reflective and impulsive students selected on the basis of scores on the Matching Familiar Figures Test were obtained from kindergarten and second-grade elementary school students. Subjects were administered five discrimination learning problems using blank-trial probes. Kindergarten subjects showed significantly more position stereotypes than did second-grade subjects. Response latencies on experimental tasks were significantly shorter for second-grade subjects than for kindergarten subjects. Reflective subjects did not significantly differ from impulsive subjects in the use of stereotypes. A significant correlation was obtained between increased latency to responding and stereotyped patterns of responding. The results were interpreted as not supporting the concept of reflection-impulsivity or models of discrimination learning based on Piagetian theory. The critical role of pretraining procedures in investigations of hypothesis behavior in children was discussed.Item Welsh characters in Renaissance drama(Texas Tech University, 2000-12) Brown, Sarah AnnThe Welsh character in Renaissance drama reflects and/or promulgates a stereotype, reflects English discomfort with their Welsh neighbors and the ambivalence that the English felt for the Welsh, and shows the changing status of Wales and the Welsh in England during the late years of Elizabeth Tudor's reign (1557-1603) and the reigns of James I (1603-1625) and Charies I. The Acts of Union,' integrafing Wales into England, initiated a transition of the status of the Welsh in Renaissance England from foreigners to legally recognized English subjects. The Acts created a new situation, calling for new reacfions: the ambiguity of the new Welsh position in English society created a more complicated set of possible reactions than had been necessary before the Acts of Union. The Acts of Union can be compared to the Renaissance marital union: Wales is cast as the wife, who is legally bound to her husband, England, but who does not have equal voice or rights and who must always recognize the superordination of her husband. This analogy fits the evidence of the English attitudes as shown in the dramas.