The theory proposes the interaction of mental schema and social experience in directing gender role behavior. The social cognitive perspective states that behavior is influenced by the interaction between peoples traits and thinking and also their social environment and context. Gender roles are fostered through rewards and punishments they experience for gender appropriate and gender inappropriate behavior. The book that contained mischels 1966 account of the social learning approach to gender development also included lawrence kohlbergs 1966 equally significant report on his cognitive developmental theory. It specifies how gender conceptions are constructed from the complex mix of experi. It specifies how gender conceptions are constructed from the complex mix of experiences and how they operate in concert with motivational and selfregulatory mechanisms. The theory provides a framework for understanding how people actively shape and are shaped by their environment. This notion was first set out at the same time as the early social learning approaches to gender development. Human differentiation on the basis of gender is a fundamental phenomenon that affects virtually every aspect of peoples daily lives. Social cognitive theory of gender role development and functioning integrates psychological and sociostructural determinants within a unified conceptual framework bandura, 1986. The cognitive approach explanation for gender differences. On the social side, we tend to watch others and their behaviors and then model our behavior after theirs. Social cognitive theory is a learning theory developed by the renowned stanford psychology professor albert bandura. This perspective was proposed by bandura after his famous bobo doll experiments.
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