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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Stern describes several realms of experience without making any of them primary including all of the following except ______.
(a) Hedonic tone.
(b) Pleasure.
(c) Discrete categories of affect.
(d) Heuristic tone.

2. ___________ psychology has neglected the idea of intersubjective relatedness in regards to infants, according to the author.
(a) Academic.
(b) Research oriented.
(c) Therapeutic.
(d) Popular.

3. The subjective self is the part of development which occurs when an infant finds they have a ________ and that others do as well.
(a) Purpose.
(b) Head.
(c) Mind.
(d) Name.

4. _______ is developed when self and others acquire subjective mental states that can be recognized by the infant.
(a) Intersubjective relatedness.
(b) Intrasubjective relatedness.
(c) Objective relatedness.
(d) Subjective relatedness.

5. Freud hypothesized several developmental stages including all of the following except ______.
(a) Anal.
(b) Oral.
(c) Genital.
(d) Mental.

6. The observed infant consists of the ________ that the infant demonstrates while under observation.
(a) Dreams.
(b) Subjective experiences.
(c) Behaviors.
(d) Thoughts.

7. Evidence is beginning to show that _________ can recognize the intersubjective stages in others as well.
(a) Children.
(b) Infants.
(c) Adults.
(d) Animals.

8. One of the primary objectives of the core self stage is to develop a/an ________ world so the infant can interact.
(a) Intrapersonal.
(b) Extrapersonal.
(c) Interpersonal.
(d) Individual.

9. When capacities mature in infants, there is a _______ according to organizing subjective perspectives.
(a) Physical leap.
(b) Inter-subjective leap.
(c) Social leap.
(d) Mental leap.

10. The coherence of _______ is the sense that an obvious property belongs to someone, according to the author.
(a) Location.
(b) Power.
(c) Locus.
(d) Form.

11. Stern believes that the _______ is the primary organizing principle of development.
(a) Stages of development.
(b) Sense of others.
(c) Environment.
(d) Sense of self.

12. 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) Sense of agency.
(c) Permanent continuity.
(d) Physical cohesion.

13. According to the book new _______ has opened doors for acquiring new information and generating new theories.
(a) Social orders.
(b) Psychologies.
(c) Species.
(d) Research.

14. Infants can also develop self-regulating experiences with ___________ which can develop early, such as security blankets.
(a) Other children.
(b) Inanimate things.
(c) Bedding.
(d) Archetypal forms.

15. There have been several revolutions in _______ that have enabled the formation of new experimental paradigms.
(a) Distributing information.
(b) Filtering information.
(c) Collecting information.
(d) Disseminating information.

Short Answer Questions

1. The term _______ emergence is used as a way to think about how the infant at this stage experiences the world.

2. The _________ is an experience of being in the presence of a self-regulating other, according to the research of this book.

3. There is little evidence showing that psychological insults and ______ at one age predict later clinical problems.

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

5. The book claims that subjective infant experience can be ascertained through the study of ______.

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