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Tom Lowe Psychology homework 1) Describe the findings and conclusions of one study of cross-cultural variations on attachments. Van Ijzendoorn et al. (1988) aimed to investigate cross-cultural variation in attachment. They found that there was considerable consistency in the overall distribution of attachment types throughout cultures. Secure attachment was the most common type throughout all of the cultures, but there was a large amount of variation in the distribution of insecure attachment. One of the more significant findings was that there was 1 1/2 more variation within cultures, than between them. The main conclusion of this study is that the overall consistency in attachment types leads to the conclusion that there may be universal characteristics that underpin infant and caregiver interactions. Also due to the greater variation found within rather than between cultures, it suggests that sub-cultural comparison studies may be more valid than cross-cultural comparisons. 2) Give two criticisms of...

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