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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. Hypothesizing about infant experience requires the use of an unobserved "_____ quality" in order to make an inference.
(a) Seen.
(b) Objective.
(c) Felt.
(d) Known.

2. The physical self or _______, is experienced as coherent, willful, and a physical entity relying on interpersonal capacities.
(a) Experiential sense of self.
(b) Residual sense of self.
(c) Platonic sense of self.
(d) Sense of a subjective self.

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

4. Infants in the emergent self stage have a disposition to create and test ______ about the world.
(a) Colors.
(b) Hypotheses.
(c) Games.
(d) Structures.

5. In the first eight weeks of life, Stern believes that infants form a sense of a/an ______ self.
(a) Capacitated.
(b) Created.
(c) Inspired.
(d) Emerging.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. The basic unit of memory is a coherent ________ which is an indivisible unit containing perceptions, affects, and actions.

3. Freud hypothesized several developmental stages including all of the following except ______.

4. The term _______ emergence is used as a way to think about how the infant at this stage experiences the world.

5. According to the book new _______ has opened doors for acquiring new information and generating new theories.

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