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Conditioned To Discriminate

Conditioned To Discriminate
From the very moment we are born, we become accustomed to certain gender rolls; I believe this to be not only true for humans, but almost every species. The mother assumes the role of nurturer and the father takes upon the role of the protector and provider. Adaptation is one of the major learned traits species have to acquire in order to survive, and survival is the major goal of all living things. Accordingly observing each gender perform a certain task we begin to associate certain traits, actions, thoughts, generally personalities with the specific gender that has performed them. To explain this theory we can look back to the model that describes the method that allows us to perceive these certain traits. As babies in order to survive we adapt by learning these traits through visual perception.
My explanation of the learning of traits through visual perception has to first be explained through Berlson and Steiner's explanation of perception, they describe this as the "complex process by which people select, organize and interpret sensory stimulation into a meaningful and coherent picture of the world"(Editor, Publication Year) . In order for this process to take place, the sensory must be stimulated through visual learning, after the information has gone through the process, it becomes a schema; schema theory is the pieces of information we learn through life that allows us to continuously comprehend information and previous schemata, an abundance of schema, that it becomes a schema; schema theory is described as schema are the pieces of information we learn through life that allows us to continuously understand new and old information. I find schema theory to be defined through this summarization from the basis I learned in a class concentrated on Schema Theory, I completed at UL. Humans are creatures of habit, so over time our schema starts to gather in clusters and then we form a constant perception of a certain idea....