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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part II, The Four Senses of Self, Chapter 8, The Sense of a Verbal Self.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. During the phase characterized by a sense of subjective self, infants can utilize all of the following capacities except ______.
(a) Sharing attention.
(b) Focus.
(c) Attributing intentions.
(d) Employing symbols.

2. Unlike other thinkers in the field, the author suggests that each developmental stage is ______.
(a) Destroyed.
(b) Discarded as the new one begins.
(c) Integrated into the others.
(d) Separate and discrete.

3. Children can begin to see themselves in a mirror, showing that they can now begin to see themselves ___________.
(a) Actively.
(b) Objectively.
(c) Impressively.
(d) Subjectively.

4. According to the book the author is both a psychoanalyst and a _______, one who studies child development.
(a) Biologist.
(b) Sociologist.
(c) Experimentalist.
(d) Developmentalist.

5. Stern asserts that there are some elements of the sense of self that exist prior to language use including all of the following except ______.
(a) Temporary continuity.
(b) Physical cohesion.
(c) Sense of agency.
(d) Permanent continuity.

Short Answer Questions

1. According to the book, at around 8 weeks, infants begin to make direct _______ contact.

2. Experiments suggest that episodes are representations of __________ that have been generalized, or RIGs.

3. The physical self or _______, is experienced as coherent, willful, and a physical entity relying on interpersonal capacities.

4. What type of psychology has NOT neglected the story of intersubjective relatedness, according to Stern?

5. The first sense of a self created in the first 8 weeks will remain active for _______.

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