The Effects of Cultural Background, Sex, and Parenthood on Beliefs About the Timetable of Cognitive Development in Infancy.

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Beliefs about infant capacities were studied in 160 pairs of Israeli parents and in 129 nonparent adolescents and young adults of both sexes. Parents with a higher education and a Western ethnic origin gave earlier age estimates about infant capacities than did others. Fathers gave later age estimates than did moth ers of the same infant. Differences due to sex and socioeconomic class emerged in nonparents as well. Comparing high-school students with nonparent univer sity students and highly educated parents, it appeared that parenthood did not make a difference in these beliefs and, in the case of females, neither did age. The results suggest that attributions of cognitive competence to infants are a re sult of preparenthood socialization, and that such attributions are little modified as a consequence of parenthood. Sex differences in this belief system are proba bly due to differential exposure of women and men to infants and to information about infants.

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