A number of various studies have been done relating to recall and preference of gender-typed materials in young children. Many of the studies done have found that subjects significantly recalled more of the same-sex objects then of the opposite-sex objects. In 1974 Nadelman (1974) that subjects were much more likely to recall same-sex items then opposite-sex items. She also found that boys were much more likely to follow this pattern then girls were. Soon thereafter Jennings (1975) did a study on gender-type recall and preference, only this time using stories as her independent variable. She had the subjects listen to the stories with either a same-sex or opposite-sex individual, the character in the story would either be acting in accurate or inaccurate behavior for the sex. She found that although the subjects preferred the stories where the characters were exhibiting accurate behavior, the subjects were more likely to recall the stories where the sex role was not accurate.
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Title: Differential Recall Of Sex-Typed Material
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