A STUDY OF THE DEVELOPMENT OF THE ABILITY TO PRODUCE DECEPTIVE STRATEGIES (SOCIAL, COMMUNICATION SKILLS, COGNITIVE, PERSPECTIVE, NONVERBAL).
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Title
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A STUDY OF THE DEVELOPMENT OF THE ABILITY TO PRODUCE DECEPTIVE STRATEGIES (SOCIAL, COMMUNICATION SKILLS, COGNITIVE, PERSPECTIVE, NONVERBAL).
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Identifier
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AAI8515617
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identifier
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8515617
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Creator
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DANIELE, RICHARD JAMES.
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Contributor
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Joseph Glick
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Date
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1985
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Language
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English
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Publisher
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City University of New York.
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Subject
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Psychology, Developmental
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Abstract
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The ability of children, 5 to 11 years of age, to produce and interpret deceptive strategies in card games of Old Maid was investigated. The purpose of the study was to determine how children learn to hold information private from others while cooperating in following the rules of the game. It considered Piaget's and Vygotsky's theories of development as models to explain deception, and Newman's model of the development of "shared" and "private" mental states.;The study was conducted in two experiments. In the first experiment, children played the games of Old Maid without interruption. The children played the games in pairs while, they were video tape recorded. Following the games, the children were interviewed about the game, and about the fairness of tricks and cheating.;The results indicated that the development of deception occurred from no use of secrecy in the game, to the use of concealment, to the use of deception. The interview data paralleled these findings and found that children showed increasing awareness of the importance of secrecy and deception in the games. Fairness questions also indicated that a development occurred, from absolute judgments that all tricks were unfair, to a recognition of the distinction between tricks and cheating.;In the second experiment, the ability of children, 5 to 11 years, to resist and recognize deception occurring in games of Old Maid was investigated. In this experiment, the children played the games with confederates trained to produce specific deceptive strategies. The purpose of the experiment was to determine whether or not the children could counteract the confederates' deception.;The results of this experiment indicated that increases in ability to resist deception occurred with increases in age. Interview data also indicated that this ability was related to the child's level of understanding of the game. Fairness data was found unrelated to age or the ability to resist deception.
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Type
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dissertation
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Source
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PQT Legacy CUNY.xlsx
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degree
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Ph.D.
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Program
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Educational Psychology
