Autobiographical Memory
Early Chiildhood Amnesia & Memory
When adults are asked generally about their earliest generic childhood memories, most acknowledge memories as early as 3-4 years of age onward. However, when asked about specific events surrounding the birth of a younger sibling, less than 50% of an adult sample reported memories for this event as young as two years of age. It was concluded that research monitoring the earliest of memories needed to provide a cue to facilitate cue and state dependent reminders of a specific memory. Cue dependence suggests the readiness of certain brain regions that are viable at that specific time. (Read more
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Parental Scaffolding & Parental Support
Research has been demonstrating that, in addition to age dependency and brain maturation during any given age, early child-parental interactions can affect the early development of childhood narratives and can explain differences in children’s later reported event descriptions. The nature and degree of parental scaffolding, i.e. how a parent verbally elaborates on an event and supports the child during parent-child reminiscing, can affect the expression of children’s later narrative development and expression depending upon the quantity and quality of narrative orienting and evaluative information provided during shared interaction. (Read more)
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Parent-Child Attachment
Attachment security has been associated with increased parent-child references to feeling states and their evaluations, i.e. the causes for emotion, meaning of emotion to the child, emotional linking of current events with previous ones, eliciting child self-referential information, directives correcting emotional behaviors, and emotional confirmations. Attached mothers with a highly elaborative reminiscent style of verbal conversation tend to emit greater non-verbal parental warmth, increased glances towards their child and number of smiles, laughs, and positive facial expressions during their supportive elaborative interactions with their child. These nonverbal communications are very important for young children’s learning. (Read more)
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