PSYC 3P32 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Exaggeration, Intentionality

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Lecture 4: childrens understanding and evaluation of lies. Intentionality component (when speaker intends to deceive, they are telling. Exaggerations: young kids rated exaggerations as lies; disappears around 8. Mistakes: young kids 6-7yrs didn"t use speakers intentions when determining. Younger kids were more likely than older kids to identify the following as lies: words, exaggerations, mistakes. Naughty words: piaget found that kids around 6 years old classified. Piaget: 100 kids between 6-12 years of age swearing/naughty. Naughty words to be lies years of age whether a disappears around 8. More recent studies support piaget"s findings that young kids confuse naughty words and honest mistakes as lies. Altruistic lies are thought of as lies by most children and adults. Factuality: at around 5 years, kids begin by using the factuality of a statement to determine whether a statement is a lie. Speech act theory: the factuality of a statement doesn"t determine whether it"s a lie.

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