PSY 301 Chapter Notes - Chapter Lying to Your Kids: Social Learning Theory
17 Nov 2018
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Follow the liar: effects of adult lies on children"s honesty. Lying: deliberately making a false verbal statement with the intent of instrilling false beliefs into the mind of the statement"s recipient. Both children and adults engage in lie-telling behaviors. Lie-telling behaviors begin to appear in children around 3 years of age, even 2 at the earliest. Most lies at this age are aimed at concealing transgressions and avoiding punishments. To test whether children have a tendency to lie in a lab setting, tell children not to look at a toy and then leave the room. Most children look, and the researcher asks if they looked at it or not. Age, theory of mind, and executive functioning ability are all correlated with the lie-telling behaviors of children. Studies show that children who value truthfulness are less likely to lie than those without this moral evaluation. According to bandura"s social learning theory, social behaviors are acquired through modeling.
