Kids With Good Memory Are Also Good Liars, Study Finds

#Kids#Memory– Kids With Good Memory Are Also Good Liars, Study Finds– If you’re a parent of an imaginative kid, you may have noticed that he or she can make up pretty good little tales to get out of certain transgressions.

And though it may annoy or worry you, this tendency isn't totally a bad thing:
A new studying the Journal of Experimental Child Psychology finds that kids who are “good liars” also have better working memories – particularly verbal memories – than “badliars.

This may be because, as the researchers point out, it can take some pretty skillful verbal maneuvering to keep one’s lies straight. So lying may, in some way, be a marker of a capable little brain.

The research team had 6- and 7-year-old kids come into the lab and take a trivia quiz, which consisted of three questions, printed on index cards.

The researcher would read the question, and then after the child answered, turn the card over to show the answer on the back: It was written in a particular color, and with a picture next to it.

After presenting the third question, which was totally fictional – it asked for the name of the kid in Spaceboy, a fake cartoon – the researcher left the room, and either told or didn’t tell the child not to look at the answer.

Of course, the whole thing was being filmed, so the researchers could tell who’d sneaked a peek.

And by asking the ones who’d lied not only whether they knew the answer but also whether they could guess the details on the back of the card, the team could rate how “good” a liar each child was

The good liars lied about both of the details. The bad liars lied about one or neither.