Psychology A-Level
Cultural variations and within-culture variation
What Cultural variations and within-culture variation means in Psychology A-Level, as defined for AQA.
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Secure led everywhere, avoidant peaked in Germany and resistant in Japan, and variation within countries was about 1.5 times that between them.
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