Cross Culture Variations

Question 1

What is culture?

Answer 1

The ideas,customs and social behaviour of a particular people or society

Question 2

What is subculture?

Answer 2

A cultural group within a larger culture, often having beliefs or interests at a variance with those of the larger culture.

Question 3

What are Individualist cultures?

Answer 3

Value independence with each working to their own individual goals

Question 4

What are collectivist cultures?

Answer 4

Values cooperation with each working towards the family or group goals.

Question 5

What was the aim for Van lizendoons study?

Answer 5

To investigate the reported rates of different infant attachment types in a range of cultures.

Question 6

What was the procedure of Van lizenw

Answer 6

They carried out a meta- analysis of 32 strange situation studies across 8 counries. hey classified the infants into 3 attachment types.

They excluded any studies including special needs children. In order to increase validity

Question 7

What were the findings of Van Ijendoorns cross culture variations?

Answer 7

German had the highest number of insecure avoidant
Secure is the most common
Japan has the highest number of insecure resistant
Uk has the highest amount of secure attachment

Question 8

What are the advantages of Van Ijendoorns study?

Answer 8

Meta analysis means that there is a large sample size

Question 9

What are some disadvantages of Van Ijzendoorns study?

Answer 9

Sample not representative of cultures