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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part II, The Four Senses of Self, Chapter 4, The Sense of a Core Self, I, Self versus Other.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. The first sense of a self created in the first 8 weeks will remain active for _______.
(a) The rest of life.
(b) The first twenty years of life.
(c) The first ten years of life.
(d) The first year of life.

3. Stern asserts that infants in the emergent stage have _______ and cognitive processes that are not easily separated.
(a) Reactive.
(b) Affective.
(c) Somatic.
(d) Prospective.

4. The term _______ emergence is used as a way to think about how the infant at this stage experiences the world.
(a) Local.
(b) Individual.
(c) Global.
(d) Familial.

5. Integration is experiences as an episodic ___________, according to Stern in his writing.
(a) Learning.
(b) Moment.
(c) Movement.
(d) Memory.

Short Answer Questions

1. Stern describes four distinct senses of the self that emerge at different times including all of the following except ______.

2. The observed infant consists of the ________ that the infant demonstrates while under observation.

3. There is some debate about how the elements in question 10 relate to the sense of self including all of the following ideas except _______.

4. According to the book, infants seek ______ and have innate biases about the kinds and amount they seek.

5. Each of the separate emotions of an infant are assigned invariant self-_________ to associate with it.

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