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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. Although this stage is secondary, the development of the self is thought to _______.
(a) Be unrelated.
(b) Occur later in development.
(c) Have occured much earlier.
(d) Occur within this stage.

2. Unlike other thinkers in the field, the author suggests that each developmental stage is ______.
(a) Discarded as the new one begins.
(b) Separate and discrete.
(c) Destroyed.
(d) Integrated into the others.

3. The sense of self-______ contains the sense of volition that comes before a motor act, according to the book.
(a) Affectivity.
(b) Coherence.
(c) Destruction.
(d) Agency.

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

5. According to the book the infant does not see the world in terms of separate domains, it is experienced as ______.
(a) Prioritized.
(b) Divided.
(c) Separate.
(d) Unified.

Short Answer Questions

1. According to the book, Stern explores the nature of the infant's experience through the study of the ______.

2. Stern asserts that infants in the emergent stage have _______ and cognitive processes that are not easily separated.

3. The third organizing perspective produces a ______ during which time language points to knowledge of self.

4. Stern asserts that there are some elements of the sense of self that exist prior to language use including all of the following except ______.

5. _______ is developed when self and others acquire subjective mental states that can be recognized by the infant.

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