cultural variations

Cards (6)

  • cross cultural variations
    the ways that different groups of people vary in terms of their social practices which have effects on development and behaviour
  • individualist
    people view themselves as individuals and emphasise the needs of individuals
  • collectivist
    people view themselves as members of groups and consider the needs of the group
  • van and kroonenberg study
    meta analysis combining findings of 32 studies of strange situation from variety of countries over 2000 children
  • meta analysis
    researcher looks at findings from a number of different studies in order to reach a general conclusion about a particular hypothesis
  • conclusions
    secure is the most common form of attachment
    high levels of insecure avoidant in Germany
    insecure resistant in Israel and Japan
    1.5x greater variation within a culture than between a culture