As the exercise explains, children pick up what is gender appropriate and gender inappropriate in their culture, and develop gender gender schemas that shape how they perceive the world and what they remember. For example, if a boy is given toy soldiers to play with, and a girl is given a house with dolls or a toy kitchen to play with, they are already building their idea of gender. This cognitive theory explains how individuals become gendered in society, having gender-associated information from the earliest memories, transforming then into a particular view of society.
