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

2. Unlike other thinkers in the field, the author suggests that each developmental stage is ______.
(a) Destroyed.
(b) Integrated into the others.
(c) Discarded as the new one begins.
(d) Separate and discrete.

3. Stern asserts that there are some elements of the sense of self that exist prior to language use including all of the following except ______.
(a) Permanent continuity.
(b) Physical cohesion.
(c) Sense of agency.
(d) Temporary continuity.

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) 3 months.
(c) 18 months.
(d) 36 months.

5. The observed infant consists of the ________ that the infant demonstrates while under observation.
(a) Dreams.
(b) Thoughts.
(c) Subjective experiences.
(d) Behaviors.

Short Answer Questions

1. Freud hypothesized several developmental stages including all of the following except ______.

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

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

4. Stern asserts that the sense of self is certainly present following language use and ______ awareness.

5. According to the book new _______ has opened doors for acquiring new information and generating new theories.

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