Human Growth and Development / Unit 1 HGD 0033 short lesson, about 20 seconds
Private Speech
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The idea
Private speech is talking to oneself to guide thinking through a hard task, which Vygotsky saw as evidence that language guides cognition.
In practice
Rehearsing a grocery list aloud, or reciting a mnemonic for the order of operations.
Where people slip
Tools free the mind too: a calculator or autocorrect handles routine steps, leaving attention for the harder parts of a problem.
Your place on the trail
Every lesson rests on earlier ones and opens later ones. Tap any to jump.
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