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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. From birth to two months of age, the _____ is employed to relate diverse experiences, affects, perceptions and events.
(a) Sense of a constricted self.
(b) Sense of an indulgent self.
(c) Sense of an divergent self.
(d) Sense of an emergent self.

2. Stern asserts that there are some elements of the sense of self that exist prior to language use including all of the following except ______.
(a) Sense of agency.
(b) Physical cohesion.
(c) Temporary continuity.
(d) Permanent continuity.

3. The book mentions several maturational tasks that must be adapted to include all of the following except ______.
(a) Social exchange.
(b) Physiological regulation.
(c) Physiological dis-regulation.
(d) Environmental regulation.

4. According to the book, recent research indicates that the infant is capable of having a sense of self and ______.
(a) Emotions.
(b) Body.
(c) Others.
(d) Thoughts.

5. According to the book, the ______ infant was thought to be connected to the social world.
(a) Objective.
(b) Observed.
(c) Small.
(d) Clinical.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. The physical self or _______, is experienced as coherent, willful, and a physical entity relying on interpersonal capacities.

3. This section describes the main objectives of the book and includes all of the following topics except ______.

4. One of the major parts of the emergent self has to do with _______ drawn between particular experiences.

5. The sense of a core self is thought to consist of many aspects including all of the following except ______.

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