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EPPP Psychology

Category - Cognitive-Affective Bases of Behavior

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Language development happens gradually over a number of stages of verbalization. Which of those stages is marked by the imitation of sounds without comprehension of them?

Word comprehension
Holophrastic speech
Echolalia
Telegraphic speech

Explanation

Answer: C - Echolalia, roughly the fourth stage of language development, is marked by the imitation of sounds without comprehension of them. Although babies start to understand certain words in the earlier word comprehension stage, comprehension is very limited.

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