Maya is four years old. At her nursery, she is shown a picture book where a man is nursing a baby and a woman is driving a train. When asked about the book the next day, she insists that the woman was nursing the baby and the man was driving the train. She also tells her teacher that she only wants to play with toy trains if they are "for girls".
Use your knowledge of gender schema theory to explain Maya's memory of the book and her attitude towards the toy trains.
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