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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) Attributing intentions.
(b) Focus.
(c) Sharing attention.
(d) Employing symbols.

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

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

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

5. According to the book, Stern explores the nature of the infant's experience through the study of the ______.
(a) Siblings.
(b) Other.
(c) Parents.
(d) Self.

Short Answer Questions

1. Unlike other thinkers in the field, the author suggests that each developmental stage is ______.

2. There are many forms of the self including all of the following except _______.

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

4. At ______ of age infants seem to sense that they have an interior subjective life and that others do as well.

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

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