developmental area (lee)

Question 1

aims

Answer 1

To find out if the culture a child grows up in (individualist or collectivist) affects their views about truth-telling and lying.
To find out if the views of children about truth-telling and lying change as they grow older.

Question 2

Individualistic cultures:

Answer 2

societies which emphasise the individual, their rights, attitudes and needs.

Question 3

Collectivist culture:

Answer 3

societies which emphasise the group, its decisions and needs and the duties of the individual to that group.

Question 4

sample

Answer 4

children from Canada 108
children from china 120

Question 5

procedure

Answer 5

Children were all tested individually
Each child was read 4 different stories
The stories were designed to reflect situations that would be familiar to them.

Question 6

Pro-social truth

Answer 6

doing something good (a pro-social behaviour) and then tell the truth about it.

Question 7

Pro-social lie

Answer 7

the character would show pro-social behaviour and then not tell the truth about it.

Question 8

Anti-social truth

Answer 8

the character would do something bad (a anti-social behaviour) and then tell the truth about it.

Question 9

Anti-social lie

Answer 9

the character would show anti social behaviour and then not tell the truth about it.

Question 10

results pro social truth stories

Answer 10

With regard to a character telling the truth about something pro-social they have done, children in collectivist China came to view this less positively as they got older