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Toy Selection If you were to go into the room of a young child, you would immediately be able to identify if the room belonged to a boy or a girl. The reason for this is because we associate different items, such as toys, as being feminine or masculine. In the article “Social Interactions and Play Patterns of Parents and Toddlers with Feminine, Masculine, and Neutral Toys,” there were three main questions that were addressed; they wanted to find out if parents encourage sex-typed toy play and discourage cross-sex play, what types of parent-child interactions are promoted by sex typed toys, and if fathers and mothers respond differently to sex-typed toys. The researchers expected that masculine and feminine stereotyped toys would elicit different patterns of play and interaction regardless of parent or child gender. There were forty parent-child pairs selected; twent