Wolf shares her observations of how adults react to girls playing with guns versus when they flirt or try to look pretty, as well as to boys who hold purses or play with necklaces versus playing soldier. Which term that we have discussed in class would be the more appropriate to use to label what's going on in these types of adult/child interactions - the social learning approach or the cognitive developmental approach? What makes this term the more appropriate choice?

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Deja Pruitt

Social Studies

13 March, 10:37

Wolf shares her observations of how adults react to girls playing with guns versus when they flirt or try to look pretty, as well as to boys who hold purses or play with necklaces versus playing soldier. Which term that we have discussed in class would be the more appropriate to use to label what's going on in these types of adult/child interactions - the social learning approach or the cognitive developmental approach? What makes this term the more appropriate choice?

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Memphis Kemp · Answer 1

Social learning approach

Explanation:

Social learning approach refers to the social conditioning of people. Individuals learns and adapt from their society and social surrounding. The concepts becomes so engraved that any situation against those norms and culture seems to be unacceptable.

In the above question, the reaction of adults to the unconditional behavior of girls and boys is an effect of life long social conditioning due to which they have associated gender specific roles to sexes.