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15 Cards in this Set
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Background |
Culture - The environment of which groups of people have similar/same behaviours, thoughts, manners, tradition, and much more. |
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Individualistic |
A culture that focuses on independent goals and ways of thinking. |
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Collectivist |
A culture that values the opinions and thoughts, as well as goals, of other members of said group. |
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Aims |
To see whether culture and age affects views on lying and truth telling behaviours. |
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Sample - collectivist |
120 children aged 7, 9 and 11 from China. |
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Sample - individualistic |
108 children ages 7, 9 and 11 from Canada. |
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Procedure |
4 stories were read to the children. 2 were pro-social behaviours (good deeds) and 2 were anti-social behaviours (bad deeds). For each story, they either lied about what they did, or told the truth. |
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Social behaviours |
Acts that impacted another child. For example, giving money to another child for lunch. |
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Physical behaviours |
Acts that impacted the environment. For example, a child sweeping dust off the floor. |
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What 2 questions were asked? |
1. Is what the child did good or naughty? 2. Is what the child said (truth or lie) good or naughty? |
Using this scale? |
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Results |
Collectivist group believed that pro-social acts should be done without telling the truth of whether you did it. It was seen as wanting/begging for praise. Anti-social behaviours done with lie-telling where seen as negative by both cultures. If the truth was told, both cultures found that more positive. |
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Debates |
Deterministic - Your culture and age determines your moral views Nurture - Your culture influences your views Holistic - The experiment investigated both culture and age |
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Ethnocentric? |
No, as both cultures were investigated and the study is cross cultural. |
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Reliability |
High internal reliability and external reliability. Internal - procedure was standardised and replicable. External - having a large sample established a consistent effect |
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Validity |
Population - High as both boys and girls partook. Low as only children aged 7 to 11 partook (possibly not large enough age range). Ecological - Very high, scenarios are things kids are usually familiar with and experience. Construct - Low in that it was independent measures design and participant variables could impact results. |
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