Question

While she is taking the trash out one night, Mallory's son Benji looks up at her and asks, "Why are you doing that, Mommy? Only men are supposed to take out the trash!" The cognitive structure that helps Benji organize information about females and males is called a gender

Answer 1

Answer: Schema

Explanation: Schema can be simply defined as a Cogntive concept or framework which helps us in organizing categories of information as well as their relationships. This lessen the time required to interpret the numerous information around us.

Benji has organised or categorized information and linked to them what relates to such categories, I.e what female are supposed to do and what males are supposed to do, that was why he was asking his mom, why she was doing what was meant to be done by a male.

The cognitive structure that helps Benji organizes this information is called Schema.