Culture And Attachment

Question 1

What is culture

Answer 1

Rules laws morals religions and language that binds members of a society together

Question 2

What is cultural variation

Answer 2

Refers to differences found between cultures or places e.g. clothing , side of road when driving

Question 3

Link between culture and attachment

Answer 3

Could be argued to be different dependent on culture and child rearing

Question 4

What is an individualistic culture

Answer 4

Those that are independent and focus on a autonomy

Question 5

What is collectivist culture

Answer 5

Those that see dependence as positive in attachment behaviour

Question 6

what did the strange situation identify

Answer 6

differences in attachment types across countries and cultures

Question 7

what is edvident across the globe despite differences between cultures

Answer 7

One primary attachment figure is evident showing bowlbys idea of a monotropic relationship can be applied cross culturally

Question 8

strengths of culture and attachment research

Answer 8

• shows a link, culture affects attachment type
• large sample size
• acknowledges differences in relationships
• compliments early life research

Question 9

Weaknesses of attachment research

Answer 9

• focuses on countries not culture
• open to other factors

Question 10

Explain van lizendoorn and kroonenbergs study

Answer 10

• Vas ljzendoorn and Kroonenberg: looks at proportions of secure, insecure avoidant and insecure resistant attachments across a range of different countries
• Also looked at differences within the same countries to get an idea of variations within a culture.
• Procedure: 32 studies in 8 countries
• 15= US
• 1990 children in total - used meta-analysis.