Effects Of Discrete Emotions On 4-Year-Old Children's Suggestibility

Developmental psychologists of Ceci and Bruck define"Suggestibility"as"The reliability of children of some events'coding, storage, extraction and report are influenced by a series of the psychological and social factors degreely".The factors on suggestibility include demographic factors, interview skills factors, individual factors and family factors. Developmental psychologists consider that individual characteristics are especially significant,and the emotional state is an important influencing factor.There is no correlative study between Emotin and Suggestibility currently.Therefore,this study will take the emotional state as the point and explore the relationship between children's suggestibility and emotion.The completion of this study can enrich the theries of children's suggestibility and provide some significances on the children's memory of other cognitive psychological factors in practice.The research methods refer to experiment. 4-year-old children who are taken at random from Dalian city are 30 respectively.First,children are engaged in the experiment of Emtion-elicit and Children's Suggestibility.Finally,we conduct ANCOVA on children's emtion and suggestibility.The conclusions of this study show that:(1) 4-Year-Old children's emotion of sadness, happiness and anger are significant Suggestibility diffrences. Post hoc tests are conducted using Tukey–Kramer pairwise comparisons. The results are: 4-Year-Old children's suggestibility of happiness is not significantly diffrent to anger, and the relation between anger and sadness is not significantly diffrent too, but happiness correlates sadness significantly.(2)4-Year-Old Children are susceptible to emotion.(3) 4-year-old children's memories of accuracy are reduced in the sad, happy and angry state.The further results by means of t-test are:in happy group, memory before emotion-eliciting in not significantly to the one after emotion-eliciting; and in angry group, the two memories are not significantly different too; but in sad group, the two memories are significantly different; in total scores,the two memories are significantly different.