Psychological Development and Education ›› 2004, Vol. 20 ›› Issue (4): 1-6.

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The Characteristcs of the Expression by the 4-year-old Children in their Autobiographical Memory

CHEN Hui-chang1, YU Feng-ru2, HOU Jing1, CHEN Xin-yin3   

  1. 1. Institute of Developmental Psychology, Beijing Normal University, China;
    2. Qinhuangdao Teacher's College, China;
    3. Department of Psychology, the Western Ontario University, Canada
  • Online:2004-10-15 Published:2004-10-15

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Abstract: The purpose of present study is to investigate the expressive characteristics of autobiographical memory of 4-year-olds.The participants were 76 children who were asked to tell their experiences of their own birthday to a strange experimenter and three strange children in laboratory.The videotape data have been coded into four dimen-sions:the logical sequence of events memory,the abundant of events content,the activity of expression,and body posture of expression.Results show that 36.8% of the subjects could memory the events according to the sequence of the events;the mean events that subjects recalled was 1.7 and mean words that the events included was 9;there are positive relationships between expressive activity and sequence as well as included words of expression,amount of recalled events and included words and memory sequence,sequence and body posture.

Key words: 4 year old children, autobiographical memory, sequence of memory

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  • B844.1
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