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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. New stages of development create _____ senses of self such as with newly acquired behaviors and capabilities.
(a) Diminuitive.
(b) Resistant.
(c) Static.
(d) Altered.

2. Stern's developmental approach is seen to mirror most closely that of Mahler and ______.
(a) Klein.
(b) Bowlby.
(c) Winnicott.
(d) James.

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

4. This section describes the main objectives of the book and includes all of the following topics except ______.
(a) Whether infants have a sense of self.
(b) How infants perceive objects.
(c) How infants unify experience.
(d) How infants multiply experience.

5. When capacities mature in infants, there is a _______ according to organizing subjective perspectives.
(a) Physical leap.
(b) Social leap.
(c) Inter-subjective leap.
(d) Mental leap.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Stern believes that the _______ is the primary organizing principle of development.

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

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

5. ________ is the idea that the infant's self concept is created by or at least altered by the narrative that she receives.

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