Children tend to organize their worlds into male and female categories.This best illustrates their use of

A) secondary sex characteristics.
B) sexual orientation.
C) gender schemas.
D) relational aggression.

Gender schemas refer to the mental frameworks that individuals use to organize information about gender. Children tend to create gender schemas at a young age, which leads them to categorize people and objects into male and female categories. This explains why children often have stereotypical ideas about what boys and girls can do and what toys they can play with.