LT12 Cross Cultural Reseach In Child Psychology Flashcards
What has to be done for cross-cultural research on charge psychology
Any research methods can be used, as long as it is carried out in the same way, using the same procedures and measuring the same characteristics in the different cultures of interest.
Can you drawn from cross-cultural research in child psychology
Comparisons can be drawn about different cultural practices looking at similarities and all differences. For example Anesworth research procedure the strange situation was used in various cultures understand differences in attachment types and draw conclusions about cultural practices in raising children
Why is cross-cultural studies done
They are conducted to see if behaviour is universal. For example research shows that language development occurs in the same stages in most cultures-all babies Coo before they adopt a good language and dialect. Cross-cultural studies help us to understand of behaviour is due to nature on nurture. For example cultures differ in the way they bring up children, socialisation.
What can we conclude of child’s behaviour is different cross culturally
If the child’s behaviour differs, we might conclude it is a product of socialisation and not biology. In comparison, if language development does not differ across different cultures despite variations in practice , We might conclude it is a universal behaviour that is due to a biology.
For the benefit of using cross cultural research in child psychology in terms of universally behaviour
It allows us to start a universal behaviour because they allow psychologist to establish whether a particular childhood behaviour is due to biological or environmental factors. If it is found to be universal it is probably due to nature: innate with everyone regardless of culture, and if not, it is due to a nurtureThe different cultural practices. For example attachment research has found that different cultures show different patterns of attachment, also child-rearing styles can vary between cultures which cause difference in attachment types
What is the benefit of the child psychology news in cross-cultural research method in terms of bias
It reduces ethnocentrism in research by bringing in other cultural views into research it reduces one-sided, biased views of behaviour for example assuming that a secure attachment is a superior because it has been found in western society. The research provides a better appreciation of the impact of culture on behaviour such as understanding the different child wearing styles come from different cultural practices, but this does not imply superiority
Is the benefit of cross cultural research control psychology in terms of checking reliability reliability
It is you to check reliability of research findings this is done by repeating the same study in different cultures to see if the same conclusions can be drawn.
What is weakness of cross cultural such a child psychology in terms of being low in validity
Findings from cross-cultural research can be lonely validity this is because the weight of procedure is carried out, my only be relevant to one culture. When this procedure is used in another culture it becomes an imposed etic. This means that the results found do not paint a true picture of cultural differences because the study is not measuring the effects of culture but instead a response of the particular procedure
What is a weakness of cross cultural research and child psychology in terms of research bias
You can suffer from research of bias this is because ethnocentrism might occur, which is when a researcher interpret the findings of a cross-cultural research in terms of their own beliefs and cultural practices. As a result this means the findings are not a true representation of the behaviour in the culture and the conclusions drawn will be different depending on who is interpreting the data
