Cognitive Psychology - Essay Example

Psychology is an important subject these days in determining our daily life actions. It not only helps to understand the actions of others but also helps one to act according to what is required by an individual. Psychology addresses the overall problems in this world. Similarly, the children born these days are vulnerable to lying about little things. The subject of Psychology helps to determine this effect in children and also helps to determine if the adults can realize when one child is lying or not. This paper would further analyze an article named “Children’s prepared and unprepared lies: Can Adults See-through Their Strategies?

The results of the research showed that prepared lies were difficult to be caught than unprepared ones and the reason for this is that the children are able to think and plan the details before lying. It also showed that they could more easily know that the child is telling the truth but it is difficult for them to judge whether he is lying. And last but not least adults were not good at determining the child’s deception. Regarding the children, it was seen that they were equally nervous when they were telling a lie or the truth when facing the interviewer so this could not be considered to be a major factor. One interesting thing which was seen was that the lying patterns of children were somewhat similar to adults as they tried to remain calm and cool while lying and also they were actually trying to relate their lies with real-life incidents.

The final conclusion that we get is that it is very difficult for an adult to know if a child is lying or not. This poses a serious problem especially when children facing criminal charges are to be questioned. Factors that adults more often consider to check a child’s lie for example the nervousness factor can be misleading. Children can also prepare lies within seconds so adults may not reach a decision regarding the credibility of the child’s statement by throwing a question to them instantaneously. So when questioning a child it should be kept in mind that it is not very easy to check whether a child is lying or not and second through a case study, it should be checked that whether it would be a prepared lie or an unprepared lie. This article concludes that it is very difficult to determine if a child is lying or not.