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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. _________ believed that in the first few months of life that an infant had a protective shield against stimuli that might affect development.
(a) Jung.
(b) Freud.
(c) Stern.
(d) Smith.

2. Infants and others negotiate meanings together, which generate self-other ___________, according to Stern in this book.
(a) Lessons.
(b) Relatedness.
(c) Interaction.
(d) Understanding.

3. Children also begin to acquire a capacity to engage in _________ play, or the process of imitating the actions of adults in their lives.
(a) Coloring.
(b) Symbolic.
(c) Witness.
(d) Maturing.

4. The relationships that develop because of language create a new subjective _______ and domain of relatedness for the infant.
(a) Movement.
(b) History.
(c) Objective.
(d) Perspective.

5. The experience of the answer in #140 might be felt as the dissolution of the core sense of ________.
(a) Health.
(b) Possibility.
(c) Self.
(d) Anger.

Short Answer Questions

1. A process of change, according to Stern, will take many __________ of clients before it comes to pass.

2. To learn, the representation of the knowledge must be laid down in long term memory, which means that the _________ memory must be developed.

3. In Stern's mind, psychopathology should be seen as manifesting in a continuum of pattern ______________.

4. Few therapists, according to Stern, believe the idea of the ________ has any special significance in development.

5. The attunements between a mother and a child can be cross-__________, or crossing many different sensory practices.

Short Essay Questions

1. What does Stern recognize about his theory, which he admits at the end of the book?

2. What are the three senses of self, as listed in this section of the book by Stern?

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

4. What does Stern see as being the most important and clinically observable aspect of intersubjective relatedness?

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

6. What does Stern believe about the capacities that tie diverse experiences of the social world together?

7. What does it mean when Stern describes the idea of deferred imitation in children?

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

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

10. What are the stages of development that Stern recommends foregoing in terms of analysis?

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