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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. Constructionistic efforts are rooted in all of the following elements except ________.
(a) Association.
(b) Aspiration.
(c) Accomodation.
(d) Assimilation.

2. During the seventh to ninth month of development, infants are ________, but they can still create experiences that are shared.
(a) Pre-visual.
(b) Preverbal.
(c) Pre-movement.
(d) Pre-memory.

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

4. The ________, however, needs a sense of self-coherence in order to make sense of the senses of self-agency.
(a) Teacher.
(b) Adult.
(c) Researcher.
(d) Infant.

5. The _________ is an experience of being in the presence of a self-regulating other, according to the research of this book.
(a) Self-identity.
(b) Self-affectivity.
(c) Self-commitment.
(d) Evoked companion.

Short Answer Questions

1. An evoked companion becomes so ________ into experience, over time, that it need not be evoked anymore.

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

3. Stern believes that the _______ is the primary organizing principle of development.

4. Psychological theories are based on hypotheses about the subject's ______ experience, which is otherwise unknowable.

5. In Chapter Two, Stern makes a distinction between the _______ infant and the observed infant.

Short Essay Questions

1. What happens to infants when they are between the second and third months of life?

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

3. What does the emergence of the subjective self mean for the infant in terms of opening a domain?

4. What are the qualifications of Daniel Stern, according to the introduction of the book?

5. What does intersubjective relatedness involve deliberately in the study of infants, according to the content of the book?

6. What may always be too much for the behavioral sciences, though it must still be theorized about?

7. What are some of the developmental markers that will show up in an infant who is around eight weeks?

8. What are fusion like experiences dependent on, according to Stern in his findings about infants?

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

10. What do caregivers of an infant do as a result of the infant seeing others as self-regulating, according to the content of the book?

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