The Relationships Among Language Skills, Emotional Knowledge And Autobiographical Memory Between 4-year-old And 6-year-old Children

Regardless of the language skills of children, emotional knowledge or autobiographical memory, they are all important aspects of cognitive development ,they are growing with consistent of age. Autobiographical memory is often characterized by heightened emotional reactions, and emotional events tend to be better remembered than nonemtional events. There have been a lot of studies between autobiographical memory and negative emotions, such as depression and post-traumatic stress disorder, as well as the phenomenon of over-generalization of the autobiographical memory attempted suicide,but there in no empirical work to investigate the link between emotional knowledge and autobiographical memory. Despite this knowledge plays a key role in contributing to the true cause of the emotional experience and behavior. Obviously , Emotional knowledge is only one of the factors of pushing the development of the autobiographical memory. Important precursors to autobiographical memory include neurobiological changes ,language and narrative skills, the emergence of a cognitive self ,the acquisition of emotional knowledge.The study combines two periods, the four-years group and the six-years group. We analyze the development of emotional knowledge, language skills and autobiographical memory of children .as well as discuss the relationship between the emotional knowledge, language skills and autobiographical memory of children. This is further study about the development of autobiographical memory and influencing factors. First analyze the effect of memory of emotional knowledge.We found:(1) Compared with the four-year-old group of children, six-year-old group of children have more emotional knowledge, language skills and a more detailed description of autobiographical memory capacity. It is demonstrated that children's emotional knowledge, language skills and autobiographical memory capacity increases with age, the trend growth.(2)Emotion knowledge and autobiographical memory have a significant positive correlation, After controlling age, sex and language ability as so on, Emotion knowledge and autobiographical memory have a significant positive partial correlation. The children who have more emotion knowledge predict more detailed memory and greater memory capacity.(3) Language ability and autobiographical memory have a significant positive correlation, After controlling age, sex as so on. Language ability and autobiographical memory have a significant positive partial correlation. The children who have stronger language skills predict more detailed memory and greater memory capacity.(4) We set autobiographical memory as the dependent variable, gender, age, emotion knowledge and autobiographical memory as independent variables, to establish multiple regression equations. among these four variables, it is confirmed that emotional knowledge have the strongest effect to autobiographical memory. Gender was removed as no linear relationship with autobiographical memory.