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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part I, The Questions and Their Background, Chapter 2, Perspectives and Approaches to Infancy.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. 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) Sharing attention.
(d) Focus.

2. Stern describes four distinct senses of the self that emerge at different times including all of the following except ______.
(a) The emergent self.
(b) The core self.
(c) The verbal self.
(d) The divergent self.

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

4. _______ is developed when self and others acquire subjective mental states that can be recognized by the infant.
(a) Subjective relatedness.
(b) Intersubjective relatedness.
(c) Objective relatedness.
(d) Intrasubjective relatedness.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. The book mentions several maturational tasks that must be adapted to include all of the following except ______.

2. Stern asserts that the sense of self is certainly present following language use and ______ awareness.

3. The observed infant consists of the ________ that the infant demonstrates while under observation.

4. From 6-9 months of age, infants begin to consolidate a core sense of self that is no longer ______.

5. Psychological theories are based on hypotheses about the subject's ______ experience, which is otherwise unknowable.

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