Ethnocentrism

Question 1

Ethnocentrism

Answer 1

When someone is said to be ethnocentric they are said to be focusing on their own culture and seeing their own cultural ways as the right ways. It therefore tends to be a criticism, just as saying someone is prejudiced or biased.

Question 2

Cultural relativism

Answer 2

Means being sure that findings from research are understood in the culture from which they came, including those normals and beliefs.

Question 3

True (01) studied

Answer 3

Attachment interactions between mothers and infants in the Dogon people of Mali in West Africa.

Question 4

True - The strange situation test

Answer 4

This involves the mother and infant interacting and then various sages of leaving the child with a stranger. The main focus is the subsequent reunion of the mother and child to see if it is anxious avoidant, anxious resistant and disorganized or securely attached.

Question 5

True wanted to look at

Answer 5

How infant attachment security is linked to the quality of mother-child communication and also whether mothers of secure infants respond more sensitively than mothers of insecure infants.

Question 6

True studied

Answer 6

27 mothers and infants

Question 7

True found

Answer 7

67% of the pairs showed a secure attachment, none were avoidant, 8% were resistant and 25% disroganised.

Question 8

Results compared to Ainsworth

Answer 8

Ainsworth, who developed the strange situation, also found over 60% secure attachments.

Question 9

This study suggests

Answer 9

The tool for studying attachment can work across the different cultures but, without taking into account the Drogon’s own cultural practices, there could be bias in interpretation of the results - cultural relativity is an issue.