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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. There is some debate about how the elements in question 10 relate to the sense of self including all of the following ideas except _______.
(a) Creating the sense of self.
(b) Obscuring an existing sense of self.
(c) Revealing an existing sense of self.
(d) Transformation of the sense of self.

2. The physical self or _______, is experienced as coherent, willful, and a physical entity relying on interpersonal capacities.
(a) Platonic sense of self.
(b) Residual sense of self.
(c) Experiential sense of self.
(d) Sense of a subjective self.

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

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

5. According to the book, Stern focuses on the sense of self because it can generate a/an ________ pattern of awareness.
(a) Invariant.
(b) Variant.
(c) Ingenous.
(d) Discontinuous.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Stern describes four distinct senses of the self that emerge at different times including all of the following except ______.

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

4. Stern's developmental approach is seen to mirror most closely that of Mahler and ______.

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

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