A Child's Vocabulary Improves Through

question 85

Multiple Choice

A child's vocabulary improves through

• A) conversations with friends.
• B) instruction in an educational setting.
• C) reading.
• D) All of these.

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Definitions:

Defense Mechanism

A psychological strategy used unconsciously to protect oneself from anxiety or to minimize distressing thoughts and feelings.

Superego

Part of the unconscious that consists of absolute moral standards internalized from one’s parents during childhood and from one’s culture.

Ego

In psychoanalytic theory, the part of the personality that mediates between the demands of the id, superego, and reality.

Id

A component of Sigmund Freud's psychoanalytic theory, representing the instinctual drives and unconscious desires.