Which Statement About Children's Use of Private Speech Is TRUE

question 15

Multiple Choice

Which statement about children's use of private speech is TRUE?

• A) Young children's use of private speech when in the presence of others is a possible sign of developmental delay.
• B) Young children talk to themselves primarily as a form of entertainment.
• C) Private speech typically ceases at about the same time children begin to string three words together.
• D) Private speech eventually becomes internalized as thought.

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Definitions:

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Collective Unconscious

Jung’s term for the impersonal, deepest layer of the unconscious mind, shared by all human beings because of their common ancestral past.

Jung

Carl Jung, a Swiss psychiatrist and psychoanalyst who founded analytical psychology, known for concepts like archetypes and the collective unconscious.

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