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Gender schema and prejudicial recall: how children misremember, fabricate, and distort gendered picture book information.(Report)
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Journal of Research in Childhood Education
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March 22, 2008
- Author:
- Frawley, Timothy J.
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Abstract. Children's perceptions of gender are greatly influenced by the illustrations/text they encounter in picture books. While transacting with authentic literature, children build gender schema that guide processing of subsequent information. This knowledge can bias memory to a point where children misremember or distort information to make it fit their existing schema. Elementary school children were presented two Caldecott Award-winning picture books and asked to retell the stories and answer criterion-specific questions related to genderoconsistent/inconsistent information contained in each story. Responses were qualitatively examined and revealed patterns of spurious ...