Forty-nine 44- to 81-month-old predominantly white children's classifi
cation of and clustering in recall of gender-typed indoor and outdoor
toys, and their gender schematicity, were assessed. Consistent with pr
edictions, children high in gender schematicity demonstrated significa
ntly greater clustering in their recall by gender type than children l
ow in schematicity. As expected, all children demonstrated more accura
te classification of same-sex than other-sex gender-typed toys in gene
ral. However, boys and girls showed distinctively different patterns i
n their abilities to accurately classify same-sex and other-sex indoor
and outdoor gender-typed toys. Results are discussed in terms of the
different social and play contexts inhabited by preschool boys and gir
ls.