Which one of the following best describes Kohlberg's gender constancy (consistency) stage?
Knowing your own gender and understanding that gender remains permanent over time and across different situations or changes in appearance.
Knowing your own gender and understanding that you will stay the same gender in the future, but believing your gender could change if you engaged in opposite-gender activities or wore opposite-gender clothing.
Knowing your own gender but believing that you can easily switch between being a boy or a girl depending on the toys you choose to play with.
Being able to label yourself as a boy or a girl but being unable to accurately identify the gender of other children or adults.
Practise AQA A Level Psychology Cognitive explanations of gender development with exam-style questions for A Level Psychology. 49 questions, matched to the AQA A Level Psychology (7182) specification and written in Paper 1, Paper 2 and Paper 3 style. Every question includes a full worked solution and mark scheme, so you can see where marks are awarded rather than just whether you got the answer right.
