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

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

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

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

5. During the phase characterized by a sense of subjective self, infants can utilize all of the following capacities except ______.
(a) Attributing intentions.
(b) Sharing attention.
(c) Employing symbols.
(d) Focus.

Short Answer Questions

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

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

3. According to the book, there are several senses associated with the self, some found ______, others are not.

4. The third organizing perspective produces a ______ during which time language points to knowledge of self.

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

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