Rachel is learning to tie her shoes. As she tries to tie her sneaker laces she says out loud "cross over and pull—now make bunny ears and put one under the other." Rachel is using
A) conservation.
B) processing capacity.
C) private speech.
D) overregularized speech.
C) private speech. Private speech is speech that children say aloud to themselves. It is later internalized to form inner speech and mental activity.
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