Developmental: Lee Flashcards

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Why were Chinese children chosen in specific for Lee’s study?

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Because they come from a communist-collectivist country which encourages communitarianism and are encourage to report misdeeds and also avoid self-aggrandisement

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Why were Canadian children chosen for Lee’s study?

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Because they come from an individualistic society whereby self promotion is not considered a character flaw

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What is an individualistic culture?

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Societies that stress the needs of the individual over the needs of the group as a whole

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What is a collectivist culture?

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Societies that emphasise where the needs and goals of the group as a whole over the needs and wishes of the individual

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What is cross-cultural research?

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Psychologists attempting to look at both universal behaviours and the unique behaviours to identify the ways in which culture impacts our behaviour

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What was the aim of the study?

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To see if Chinese and Canadian children would differ in how they rated truth telling and lie telling in pro social settings and in anti social settings

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What is a pro social setting?

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Where someone has done something good

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What is an anti social setting?

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Where someone has done something bad

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How were the Chinese children predicted to rate the truth telling in pro social situations?

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Less positively than the Canadian children

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How were the Chinese children predicted to rate the lie telling in pro social situations?

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Less negatively than the Canadian children

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How were the Canadian and Chinese children predicted to rate truth telling in the anti social situations?

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Both cultures were expected to show similar moral evaluations of lie telling and truth telling

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How many stories were the children presented with?

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4

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What were the 4 types of story?

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Pro-social behaviour then truth telling
Pro-social behaviour then lie telling
Anti-social behaviour then truth telling
Anti-social behaviour and then lie telling

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What were the two types of story condition?

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Physical or social

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What did the social stories depict?

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A child conducting a deed directly affecting another child

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How were the children split in terms of the physical/social stories?

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in half

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What did the physical stories depict?

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A child carrying out a deed involving only physical objects which later had social impications

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What is a cross sectional study?

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Collect together a sample of participants of different ages and see what the different age groups are/aren’t capable of

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What are 2 advantages of cross sectional studies?

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Quicker than longitudinal studies as can access a variety of ages at the same time
Less risk of participant attrition

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What are 2 disadvantages of cross sectional studies?

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Individual differences between P’s at different ages

Only get a snapshot and cannot analyse development or changes over time (within individuals)

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How many IV’s were there in Lee’s study?

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4

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How was nationality of the child an IV?

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As they were Chinese or Canadian

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How was age an IV?

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The children were either 7, 9 or 11 years old

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What was the IV involving how the character behaved in the story?

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Pro social or anti social

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What was the IV in terms of what was affected by the child’s behaviour?

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Social or physical

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For the Chinese sample, how many male and female children were there for each age group?

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20m and 20f

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For the Chinese sample, how many males and females were used in total?

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60m and 60f

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In the Canadian sample how many males and females were in the aged 7 group?

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20m and 16f

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In the Canadian sample, how many males and females were there in the aged 9 group?

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24m and 16f

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In the Canadian sample how many males and females were there in the aged 11 group?

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14m and 18f

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What was the overall total of Chinese children?

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120 children

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What was the overall total of the Canadian children?

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108 children

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How were children allocated to the social or physical story condition?

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On a random basis

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How were the children seen?

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Individually

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What was explained first of all during the procedure?

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The rating scale

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When the children had to answer the questions, what could they use to answer the questions?

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Words, symbols or sometimes both

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How many stories did each child listen to and of what kind?

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The child either listened to 4 social stories or 4 physical stories

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How did Lee control that the children weren’t just saying the first answer option each time?

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By alternating the meaning of good and naughty

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How did the researchers in Lee’s study counterbalance?

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By randomly allocating stores to one of two orders so half the children had one order and the other half had the other order

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What scale did Lee use for the study?

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From -3 to 3 where 3 was very very good and -3 was very very naughty

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Summarise what the pro-social - truth telling section was testing

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Whether it was good or bad to tell the truth about doing something good

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Summarise what the pro-social - lie telling section was testing

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Whether is was good or bad to tell a lie about doing something good

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Summarise what the anti-social - truth telling section was testing

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Whether is was good or bad to tell the truth about doing something bad

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Summarise what the anti-social - lie telling section was testing

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Whether it was good or bad to lie about doing something bad

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What were the results from story one (pro social truth telling) in terms of how the children rated the pro social behaviours?

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There were no significant differences in how the children rated these behaviours

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What were the results from story one (pro social truth telling) in terms of how consistent the cultures were across age in their ratings?

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Canadian children were consistent across their ratings at each age
Chinese children rated truth telling less positively as age increased

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What were the results from story two (pro social lie telling) in terms of Canadian children?

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They rated lie telling negatively although this became less negative with age

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What were the results from story two (pro social lie telling) in terms of the Chinese children?

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At aged 7 they rated lie telling negatively by at age 11 they rated lie telling positively

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What were the results from story three (anti social truth telling)?

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There were no significant differences - both cultures rated this positively

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What variable did Lee find was less important when it came to the results from story four (anti social lie telling)?

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Culture was less important as age differences were found among the children

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What were the results in terms of age from story four (anti social lie telling)?

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Negative ratings increased with age in both cultures

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Describe how the older Chinese and older Canadian children were different in terms of rating pro social truth telling

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Older Chinese children rated pro social truth telling less positively than the older Canadian children

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Describe how the Chinese and Canadian children differed in terms of rating pro social lie telling

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Canadian children were slightly negative in their ratings compared to Chinese children who were positive in their ratings

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How did children from both cultures rate anti social lie telling?

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Both rated this negatively

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How did children from both cultures rate anti social truth telling?

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Both rated this positively

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How did 1/2 of the Chinese children justify their reasons for rating pro social truth telling negatively?

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They said it was because the child was ‘begging for’ or ‘wanting’ praise

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What reasons did a 1/3 of the Chinese children give for rating the pro social lie telling as positive?

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Because you shouldn’t tell your teacher or leave your home after doing a good deed

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What does Lee’s study suggest about moral development in relation to socio-cultural practices?

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That moral development is different in different cultures as a result of socio-cultural norms and practices and not only as a result of cognitive development

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Which ethical guidelines did Lee uphold?

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Consent, withdrawal and confidentiality

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How might we argue that Lee upheld withdrawal?

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The unequal numbers in the Canadian sample maybe possible evidence for withdrawn children?

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Which ethical guidelines did Lee break?

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Slight emotional harm may have been cause if the story upset the child and there was minor deception

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Was the procedure standardised and replicable? (internal reliability)

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Yes, all 8 stories were standardised and could be repeated

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Was the sample large enough to suggest a consistent effect? (external reliability)

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Yes, large sample size allowed for consistent effects to be shown across age, culture and story type

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How far was there a risk of demand characteristics? (construct validity)

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Unlikely that the children would guess the purpose of the experiment and what Lee was trying to find from the results

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Could the researchers have been measuring something other than moral development? (construct validity)

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How comfortable the children were with the researcher or familiarity with rating scales

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Did the stories presented to the children resemble real life? (ecological validity)

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Whilst they are potentially everyday activities, what a child says they would do may be different to what they would actually do

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In what ways could Lee’s study be argued to be ethnocentric?

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Because Canada cannot represent all individualistic cultures and China cannot represent all collectivist cultures