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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.

Short Answer Questions

1. Hypothesizing about infant experience requires the use of an unobserved "_____ quality" in order to make an inference.

2. The ________, however, needs a sense of self-coherence in order to make sense of the senses of self-agency.

3. ________ are formed as a result of the repeat events, of the repeat lived experiences that infants experience.

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

5. The developmentalist picture helps to account for the lack of differentiation of experience including ______.

Short Essay Questions

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

2. What does Stern say is the definition of the clinical infant as will be described and used in parts of this book?

3. What is the goal of the book in its exploration of the subjective life of infants, according to the content of the book?

4. What have a number of revolutions in collecting information done for the study of infants?

5. What happens before a child begins to create a more social understanding of their world, according to Stern?

6. What are the differences between the observed infant and the clinical infant in terms of social interaction?

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

8. What does core-relatedness do for the infant as they are growing up in the world, according to the content of the book?

9. What is the observed view of infancy, a dialogue that continues throughout the book?

10. What are the five different things that self-coherence integrates for the infant, according to the content of the book?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

When writing a therapy book, it can be difficult to manage subjective and objective points of view.

Part 1: Do you think an author can be completely objective?

Part 2: What is the value in being subjective when writing a book?

Part 3: How do you think this book might change if it was completely objective?

Essay Topic 2

Stern believes that many of the experiences people experience as a whole are genetic in nature.

Part 1: What role do you think genetics play in the development of social experiences?

Part 2: Why do you think Stern believes that genetics are the source of many experiences?

Part 3: Do you think the idea of genetic-based experiences is limiting?

Essay Topic 3

Stern seems to be using the study of infants to help readers learn more about human nature in general.

Part 1: Do infants seem to be a good way to study human nature?

Part 2: Why is the study of human nature important to the audience?

Part 3: How might human behavior change after learning more about infants?

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