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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. At ______ of age infants seem to sense that they have an interior subjective life and that others do as well.
(a) 3 months.
(b) 18 months.
(c) 9 months.
(d) 36 months.

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

3. Experiments suggest that episodes are representations of __________ that have been generalized, or RIGs.
(a) Interactions.
(b) Intuitions.
(c) Integrations.
(d) Movements.

4. 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.

5. One of the major parts of the emergent self has to do with _______ drawn between particular experiences.
(a) Inflections.
(b) Connections.
(c) Reactions.
(d) Contradictions.

Short Answer Questions

1. The sense of core-self requires self-__________ because otherwise the sense of the core-self would evaporate with each new event.

2. In Chapter Two, Stern makes a distinction between the _______ infant and the observed infant.

3. According to the book the infant does not see the world in terms of separate domains, it is experienced as ______.

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

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

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