Lee (Developmental)

Question 1

Lee Aims

Answer 1

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

Question 2

Lee Sample

Answer 2

China:
60 males and 60 females
40 age 7, 40 aged 9, and 40 aged 11
Overall 120
City of Hangzhou

Canada:
58 males and 50 females
36 aged 7, 40 aged 9 and 32 aged 11
Overall 108
City of Fredericton

Question 3

Lee Story Condition

Answer 3

Pro-Social Truth-telling = Doing a good deed and admitting to doing it

Pro-Social Lie-telling = Doing a good deed but saying that they didn’t do it

Anti-Social truth telling = Doing a bad deed but admitting to doing it

Anti-Social Lie-telling = Doing a bad deed and lying about it

Question 4

Lee’s Procedure

Answer 4

• Children allocated to either social or physical story condition on a random basis
• seen individually
• first the rating scales was explained to them
• each child listened to all four social stories or all four physical stories
• asked questions on whether what they did was good or naughty

Question 5

Lees Results

Answer 5

Pro-Social Truth-telling:
There was a significant interaction between age and culture as Canadian children gave similar ratings to truth telling at each age, whereas Chinese children rated truth telling less positively as age increased

Pro-Social Lie-telling:
Canadian children rated lie telling negatively although this became less negative as aged increased

Anti-Social Truth-telling:
There is no sig difference between cultures with the children from Canada and China rating truth telling very positively

Anti-Social Lie-telling:
Significance was shown between age groups with the negative ratings increasing with age despite culture

Question 6

Lee Conclusions

Answer 6

Moral development is different in different cultures as a result of sociocultural norms and practices and not only as result of cognitive development