Private speech: four studies and a review of theories.

By L. Kohlberg, Judy Yaeger, Else Hjertholm. 1968

Subfields: Cognitive Science & Psychology

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Individual differences in children's private speech: the role of imaginary companions. (2013, unknown): “Overt private speech often has a dialogic structure (e.g., Berk & Garvin, 1984; Kohlberg et al., 1968), with children using self-answered questions and talking on behalf of toys.”
Private speech in young adults Task difficulty, self-regulation, and psychological predication (2001, unknown): “A number of contemporary studies have produced evidence of various kinds supporting such a hypothesized developmental decline (Beaudichon, 1973; Behrend, Rosengren, & Perlmutter, 1989; Berk, 1986; Berk & Garvin, 1984; Bivens & Berk, 1990; Deutsch & Stein, 1972; Kohlberg et al., 1968; Pellegrini, 198”
Individual differences in children's private speech: Consistency across tasks, timepoints, and contexts (2011, background): “The incidence of fully overt PS drops off during early childhood, and, in middle childhood, PS is more likely to take the form of covert muttering and whispering, and silent, verbal lip movements (Kohlberg et al., 1968; Winsler, 2009).”
Private speech in preschool children: developmental stability and change, across-task consistency, and relations with classroom behaviour (2003, background): “…and gradually being replaced by partially internalized whispers and inaudible muttering, and silent ‘ inner’ verbal thought, or inner speech, as children progress through early elementary school (Kohlberg et al., 1968; Berk, 1986; Bivens & Berk, 1990; Manning & White, 1990; Winsler et al., 2000).”
From Social Interaction to Higher Psychological Processes (2008, background): “Most researchers who have studied egocentric speech (e.g., Kohlberg et al., 1968) have restricted their attention to the child’s utterances once the child has begun to function as an independent, selfregulating agent.”
Distinguishing One’s Own Voice from Those of Others: A Function for Private Speech? (1997, background): “The answer to such an objection lies in what Kohlberg et al. (1968) termed the “parasociality” of private speech.”