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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. The book claims that subjective infant experience can be ascertained through the study of ______.
(a) Biology.
(b) Healthy infant development.
(c) Sociology.
(d) Psychopathology.

2. From 6-9 months of age, infants begin to consolidate a core sense of self that is no longer ______.
(a) Neurotic.
(b) Symbiotic.
(c) Amniotic.
(d) Probiotic.

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

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

5. At ______ of age infants seem to sense that they have an interior subjective life and that others do as well.
(a) 36 months.
(b) 9 months.
(c) 18 months.
(d) 3 months.

Short Answer Questions

1. During the phase characterized by a sense of subjective self, infants can utilize all of the following capacities except ______.

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

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

4. According to the book, psychoanalysis is a _______ theory that is used to acquire information about patients.

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

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