Based on the previous literature, it was expected that with age children would be more likely to lie and be better at maintaining their lie during follow-up questions
(i.e., have better semantic leakage control).
Based on Bandura’s (1991) social cognitive theory and Lee et al. (2014),
it was hypothesized that there would be a main effect of appeals to tell the truth.
Children would be more likely to tell the truth if they were previously provided with internal or external appeals to
tell the truth compared with children who received no appeals to tell the truth.