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Two experiments were conducted to explore the use of sex-stereotypic encoding of occupations using a release-from-proactive-inhibition paradigm. Based on Bern's (1981) gender schema theory, it was expected that sex-typed persons would be more likely to encode occupations along gender lines than non-sex-typed persons. Two measures (the Bern Sex-Role Inventory and the Adjective Check List) were used to assign subjects to sex role categories. Findings indicate that the masculinefeminine connotation of occupations is a salient dimension for encoding by both men and women. The sexes, however, diifered in when they used the gender-encoding schema. Women encoded along the gender dimension consistently, whereas men did so only when feminine occupations preceded masculine ones in the order of presentation. No differences between sex-typed and non-sex-typed persons were found. This lack of sex-typing effects is inconsistent with Bern's gender schema theory. It is suggested that the theory needs refining, taking into consideration situational variables.

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In two separate experiments, infants were presented with two trials of a novelty preference task. They were familiarized with either a caricature or a photograph of a human face and then, during the novelty test, were presented with a pair of faces, one of which was that of a novel individual. In Experiment 1 the presentation format (caricature or photograph) was constant from familiarization to novelty test, whereas in Experiment 2 the pictures presented during the novelty test were in the format opposite that presented during the familiarization period. The infants in Experiment 1 spent a significant proportion of their looking time fixating the novel face regardless of the presentation format. In Experiment 2, the infants spent significantly more time fIXating the novel face only on those trials in which they were familiarized with caricatures and tested with photographs. These results indicate that infants can, under some conditions, recognize a familiar face and discriminate it from a novel face of the same sex even when the presentation format has changed. However, recognition of the correspondence between a caricature and photograph of a specific face is limited to those conditions in which the familiarization stimulus accentuates the distinctive features.