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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. In Chapter Two, Stern makes a distinction between the _______ infant and the observed infant.
(a) Large.
(b) Subjective.
(c) Small.
(d) Clinical.

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

4. Self-coherence integrates the unity of _________, the experience of being at a place at a certain time.
(a) Presence.
(b) Locus.
(c) Location.
(d) Truth.

5. The self with the other is a _________ experience, including merging, fusings, security gratification, and more, according to the author.
(a) Honest.
(b) Subjective.
(c) Objective.
(d) Natural.

Short Answer Questions

1. __________ enables identifying what property belongs to which person, according to the author, which prevents the two core selves from getting confused.

2. According to the book, Stern explores the nature of the infant's experience through the study of the ______.

3. Primary psychological needs for __________, according to Stern, may also play a role in the emergence of intersubjectivity.

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

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

Short Essay Questions

1. What are some of the many forms of what might be called the self, according to this book?

2. How do clinical and parental views of an infant begin to converge, according to the content of the book?

3. Why don't the two core selves of an infant get confused, according to the research of Stern?

4. What happens as a result of infants having a central disposition to create and test the hypotheses of the world?

5. What does Stern believe is part of the reason for infants responding to parental behavior, according to the content of the book?

6. What are the three main questions the author seeks to explore and to answer within this book?

7. What are some of the things that language and self-reflection can do, according to the content of the book?

8. What does infant research note about the capability of the infant who is between two and three months?

9. What does research show about infants and the experience of intersubjective stages in others, according to the content of the book?

10. What are the two parts that make up the sense of the emergent self, according to Stern in this book?

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