Four-year-old Regis is learning to tie his own shoes. To help keep him on task, he talks to himself. For instance, he says, “First you make a knot. Then you make a loop.” Regis’s use of spoken language not intended for others is called __________
a) private speech
b) social speech
c) egocentric speech
d) practice speech
Answer: a
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a. ?Social facilitation b. ?Social interference c. ?Compliance d. ?Fundamental attribution
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A) Sectional B) Cross-sequential C) Sequential D) Cross-sectional
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Fill in the blank(s) with the appropriate word(s).