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A Study on the Development of Preschooler’s Deception and Deceptive Strategies

LIU Xiu-li1, CHE Wen-bo2   

  1. 1. Department of Psychology, Northeast Normal University, Changchun 130024;
    2. Department of Social Psychology, Jilin University, Changchun 130012
  • Online:2006-10-15 Published:2006-10-15

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Abstract: The purpose of the study was to explore the development of the preschooler's deception and deceptive strategies.We adopted the deceptive task of "finding the coins", the results showed that: (1) the number of the preschoolers who adopted the deceptive strategy of lying and the deceptive strategy of destroying proof decreased with age, and the number of the preschoolers who adopted four deceptive strategies increased with age.; (2) 3-year-old children showed both the deceptive strategy of lying and the deceptive strategy of destroying proof, but it was not until age 4 that the decept ive strategy of "making false mark" could be shown; (3) there was no significant correlation between understanding the false-belief and adopting the decept ive strategies for children aged 3 and 6, but there was a significant correlation between understanding the false-belief and adopting the deceptive strategies for children aged 4 and 5.

Key words: deception, false-belief, theory of mind, preschooler

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