Preschoolers Cal and Jacob are playing with toy trucks. Jacob says, My mommy took me to watch the construction at the end of the street. Cal responds, This dump truck is yellow and black. I have one like this at my house. Then Jacob says, They were digging up the road with a backhoe. They are putting a big pipe under the road. Cal then says, I also have a green cement truck. It can turn. I got it for my birthday. This conversation is an example of______________.

a. telegraphic speech.
b. a cooperative dialogue.
c. parallel speech.
d. a collective monologue.

Collective monologue, often referred to as pseudo conversation is a term that describes a form of egocentric conversation among children, such that children talk among themselves without connection or correlation to what others has said or saying. It is a type of conversation whereby one statement, say "Kid A" appears unrelated to statement from "Kid B". It was first explained by Jean Piaget, a Swiss psychologist who has done a lot of research on Child Development.

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Answer:

Answer is d) a collective monologue. Therefore,

Preschoolers Cal and Jacob are playing with toy trucks. Jacob says, My mommy took me to watch the construction at the end of the street. Cal responds, This dump truck is yellow and black. I have one like this at my house. Then Jacob says, They were digging up the road with a backhoe. They are putting a big pipe under the road. Cal then says, I also have a green cement truck. It can turn. I got it for my birthday. This conversation is an example of a collective monologue.

Refer below for the explanation.

Explanation:

Collective monologue is a type of egocentric, unsocialized discourse in which kids talk among themselves without obviously speaking with one another in an important manner; that is, the announcements of one youngster appear to be inconsequential to the announcements of the others.