Which of the following differentiates between the social cognitive theory and the gender schema theory?

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Gender Schema Theory and Its Implications for Child Development: Raising Gender-Aschematic Children in a Gender-Schematic Society

Signs

Vol. 8, No. 4 (Summer, 1983)

, pp. 598-616 (19 pages)

Published By: The University of Chicago Press

https://www.jstor.org/stable/3173685

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