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YOUNG CHILDREN’S EMERGING ABILITY TO MAKE FALSE STATEMENTS
by
Elizabeth Carole Ahern
A Thesis Presented to the
FACULTY OF THE USC GRADUATE SCHOOL
UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA
In Partial Fulfillment of the
Requirements for the Degree
MASTER OF ARTS
(PSYCHOLOGY)
May 2010
Copyright 2010 Elizabeth Carole Ahern
Object Description
| Title | Young children’s emerging ability to make false statements |
| Author | Ahern, Elizabeth Carole |
| Author email | eahern@law.usc.edu; ecahern@gmail.com |
| Degree | Master of Arts |
| Document type | Thesis |
| Degree program | Psychology |
| School | College of Letters, Arts and Sciences |
| Date defended/completed | 2009-09-30 |
| Date submitted | 2010 |
| Restricted until | Unrestricted |
| Date published | 2010-01-19 |
| Advisor (committee chair) | Lyon, Thomas |
| Advisor (committee member) |
Manis, Franklin Farver, JoAnn |
| Abstract | This study examined the origins of children’s ability to make consciously false statements, a necessary component of lying. Children aged 2 to 5 years were rewarded for claiming that they see a picture of a bird when viewing pictures of fish. They were asked outcome questions (“do you win/lose?”), recognition questions (“do you have a bird/fish?”), and recall questions (“what do you have?”), which were hypothesized to vary in difficulty depending on the need for consciousness of falsity (less for outcome questions) and self-generation of an appropriate response (more for recall questions). The youngest children (2 ½ to 3 ½) were above chance on outcome questions, but it was not until 3 ½ that children performed above chance on recognition questions or were capable of maintaining false claims across question-types. Findings have implications for understanding the emergence of deception in young children, and for the courts’ assessment of child witness competency and credibility. |
| Keyword | children; inhibition; cognition; lying; preschool |
| Language | English |
| Part of collection | University of Southern California dissertations and theses |
| Publisher (of the original version) | University of Southern California |
| Place of publication (of the original version) | Los Angeles, California |
| Publisher (of the digital version) | University of Southern California. Libraries |
| Provenance | Electronically uploaded by the author |
| Type | texts |
| Legacy record ID | usctheses-m2804 |
| Rights | Ahern, Elizabeth Carole |
| Repository name | Libraries, University of Southern California |
| Repository address | Los Angeles, California |
| Repository email | http://www.usc.edu/isd/libraries/services/ask_a_librarian/email/ |
| Filename | etd-Ahern-3410 |
| Archival file | uscthesesreloadpub_Volume44/etd-Ahern-3410.pdf |
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| Full text | i YOUNG CHILDREN’S EMERGING ABILITY TO MAKE FALSE STATEMENTS by Elizabeth Carole Ahern A Thesis Presented to the FACULTY OF THE USC GRADUATE SCHOOL UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA In Partial Fulfillment of the Requirements for the Degree MASTER OF ARTS (PSYCHOLOGY) May 2010 Copyright 2010 Elizabeth Carole Ahern |
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