Lee

Question 1

Area

Answer 1

The Developmental Area

Question 2

What classic study does it link to?

Answer 2

Kohlberg

Question 3

Aim

Answer 3

To find out if truth-telling and lying changes with age or type of culture (collectivist/individualist)

Question 4

Sample

Answer 4

108 children from Canada
120 children from China
Ages 7,9,11

Question 5

Procedure

Answer 5

1. One of four stories were told (a combination of antisocial/prosocial and lie/truth)
2. The children were asked to rate it on a scale from very very good from very very naughty

Question 6

Findings

Answer 6

Children in collectivist China viewed prosocial truth telling less positively and prosocial lying more positively with age
Children from both Canada and China rated antisocial truth telling positively and then antisocial lying more negatively with age

Question 7

Similarities with Kohlberg

Answer 7

1. Both cross-cultural (China,Canada and Taiwan, Turkey, Mexico, UK)
2. Both gave children scenarios (gave moral dilemmas and 4 stories)

Question 8

Differences to Kohlberg

Answer 8

1. Longitudinal vs snapshot (over 12 years vs multiple ages at once)
2. Gender mix (75 boys vs 118 boys and 110 girls)

Question 9

How has and hasn’t it changes our understanding from Kohlberg?

Answer 9

1. It has shown that culture has an effect on moral development
2. It gives us insight in addition to moral stages
3. But still shows moral thinking changes with age
4. Doesn’t challenge Kohlberg’s idea of the stages of moral development