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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. Stern believes that the _______ is the primary organizing principle of development.
(a) Sense of others.
(b) Environment.
(c) Stages of development.
(d) Sense of self.

2. The basic unit of memory is a coherent ________ which is an indivisible unit containing perceptions, affects, and actions.
(a) Card.
(b) Remembrance.
(c) Structure.
(d) Episode.

3. During the phase characterized by a sense of subjective self, infants can utilize all of the following capacities except ______.
(a) Employing symbols.
(b) Attributing intentions.
(c) Focus.
(d) Sharing attention.

4. Stern asserts that the process of subjectively experiencing social interactions requires _____ senses of self.
(a) Four.
(b) Five.
(c) Three.
(d) Two.

5. During the sense of a core self stage, the infant has a more wholly integrated mode of _______.
(a) Physical interaction.
(b) Social interaction.
(c) Mental interaction.
(d) Scholastic interaction.

Short Answer Questions

1. One of the needs of infants at this stage is for ________, usually provided by the parents.

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

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

4. Integration is experiences as an episodic ___________, according to Stern in his writing.

5. According to the book, recent research indicates that the infant is capable of having a sense of self and ______.

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