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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. Psychological theories are based on hypotheses about the subject's ______ experience, which is otherwise unknowable.
(a) Reflective.
(b) Subjective.
(c) Objective.
(d) Perspective.

2. The observed infant consists of the ________ that the infant demonstrates while under observation.
(a) Dreams.
(b) Thoughts.
(c) Behaviors.
(d) Subjective experiences.

3. The third organizing perspective produces a ______ during which time language points to knowledge of self.
(a) Domain of verbal relatedness.
(b) Domain of psychological relatedness.
(c) Domain of physical relatedness.
(d) Domain of resource relatedness.

4. According to the book, Erickson suggested several stages of development that included all of the following except _____.
(a) Industry.
(b) Sensory.
(c) Trust.
(d) Autonomy.

5. According to the book new _______ has opened doors for acquiring new information and generating new theories.
(a) Species.
(b) Research.
(c) Social orders.
(d) Psychologies.

Short Answer Questions

1. According to the book the author is both a psychoanalyst and a _______, one who studies child development.

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

3. According to the book, the ______ infant was thought to be connected to the social world.

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

5. There is little evidence showing that psychological insults and ______ at one age predict later clinical problems.

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