The Test May Be Culture-bound

Question 1

What does culture bound text mean?…example

Answer 1

It does not have the same meaning in countries outside Western Europe and USA.

Question 2

Why doesn’t it have the same meaning?

Answer 2

Cultural differences in childhood and experiences are likely to mean that children respond differently to the strange situation

Caregivers from different cultures behave differently in the strange situation

Question 3

Takahashi has noted that…

Answer 3

The test does not really work in Japan as Japanese mothers are so rarely separated from their babies that, as we would expect, there are very high levels of separation anxiety

Question 4

What happens in the reunion stage ?

Answer 4

Japanese mothers rushed to the Baby and scooped them up, meaning the child’s response was hard to observe

Question 5

There is some doubt whether..

Answer 5

The strange situation is a culture bound test