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

2. Stern asserts that the sense of self is certainly present following language use and ______ awareness.
(a) External.
(b) Reflective.
(c) Constructive.
(d) Self-reflective.

3. According to the book the author is both a psychoanalyst and a _______, one who studies child development.
(a) Developmentalist.
(b) Sociologist.
(c) Experimentalist.
(d) Biologist.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. New stages of development create _____ senses of self such as with newly acquired behaviors and capabilities.

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

3. From birth to two months of age, the _____ is employed to relate diverse experiences, affects, perceptions and events.

4. There is some debate about how the elements in question 10 relate to the sense of self including all of the following ideas except _______.

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

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