PSYC 2110 Chapter Notes - Chapter 17: Shuar People
PSYC 2110 Chapter 17 Notes
Introduction
Inductive Approach
• Fro the oserers’ trasripts, doais of ateral aregiig ere idetified.
• Using an inductive approach, two of the researchers and an ethnographic expert
reviewed the transcripts.
• On first pass, they identified major caregiving themes.
• Then they reviewed the transcripts in more detail, focusing on specifying the major
domains and identifying subdomains.
• In this way they were able to develop a set of culture-sensitive scales that could be used
alongside previously developed measures in order to assess the universality of infant-
sensitive maternal care.
• The 10 scales of maternal sensitivity derived from the observations included domains
such as promptness of response, enjoyment of interaction, interactive smoothness, and
quality of physical contact.
• Results from the ethnographically derived Colombian scales were highly consistent with
results from measures previously developed for Caucasian middle-class and upper-
middle-class families, lending credence to the notion those sensitive caregiving
behaviours are similar across cultures and socioeconomic circumstances, at least within
the first fe years of a ifat’s life.
• Another example of ethnological research comes from the work of Gregory Bryant and
Clark Barrett (Bryant & Barrett, 2007).
• They have been visiting and interacting with the Shuar people, a culture of hunter-
horticulturalists living in the South American rainforest who have no experience with
people from industrialized countries.
• Bryant and Barrett found evidence that Shuar adults are able to recognize infant-
directed speech and even tell the difference between various intentions of speech (for
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