A weakness of Ainsworth strange situation?

-Lack generalisability -Ainsworth developed the technique in the UK and US and her original sample was 106 American's. The babies may have different experiences in different cultures and theses experiences may have affected their repsonse -In a Japanese variation, by Takahashi et al, found that babies displayed very high levles of separation anxiety and so a disproportionate number were classified as insecure-resistant. Also suggests that this anxiety response was not due to high rates of attachment insecurity but the unusual nature in Japan where mother-baby separation is very rare. -Means that it is very difficuly to know what the strange situaiton is actually measuring when used in individualistic societies given that the test could be culture-bound