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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. Just as ________ develop, according to Stern, so must the theories about what they experience and who they are.
(a) Narratives.
(b) Therapists.
(c) Infants.
(d) Adults.

2. _________ of sense of self also help to identify a helpful narrative point of origin for the therapist when working with a client.
(a) Domains.
(b) Words.
(c) Activities.
(d) Interactions.

3. Stern doesn't like the idea of a barrier to stimuli because it is based on the idea of a period of life in which an infant is uninterested in ___________.
(a) Parents.
(b) Learning.
(c) Stimulus.
(d) Language.

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

5. What is NOT one of the three different qualities that can be matched in the process of affect attunement?
(a) Timing.
(b) Shape of behavior.
(c) Language.
(d) Intensity.

Short Answer Questions

1. The process of ___________ and separation is not stage-specific but is ongoing throughout a life, as the self/other barrier is always being negotiated.

2. What the infant enjoys and what reality is accepted arise together for the _________, not the latter after the former.

3. _______ psychology can also aid in searching for causes when a diagnosis is already known, according to Stern.

4. The period of __________ of each sense of self is probably a sensitive period and should be focused on in therapy, according to Stern.

5. The interpersonal ______ created by attunement is crucial for helping an infant realize that internal feeling states can be shared with others.

Short Essay Questions

1. Why might pathologies result in the study of the formation of self in the infant, according to Stern?

2. Why does language cause a split in the experience of the self, according to the book?

3. What does it mean when the book says it is cross-modal and that it can cross sensory modalities?

4. What does the quasi-imitation that happens between an infant and their mother produce?

5. What does it seem about the levels of stimulation that an infant experiences in their life, according to the content of the book?

6. Why does Stern believe that the whole chain of reasoning that led to the idea of a barrier should be discarded?

7. Why does Stern omit the idea of an oral stage when he discusses the infant growth stages, according to the content of the book?

8. What happens when a child reaches their second year of living, according to the book?

9. At what age do mothers add a new dimension of affect attunement when they are with their infants?

10. What development has Stern's book sought to describe and to explore?

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