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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part II, The Four Senses of the Self, Chapter 3, The Sense of an Emergent Self.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. Clinical and parental view tend to converge in believing the child has an active subjective life including ______.
(a) Changing emotions.
(b) Lack of participation in the environment.
(c) Changing vision.
(d) Changing objective experiences.

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

4. 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.

5. Hypothesizing about infant experience requires the use of an unobserved "_____ quality" in order to make an inference.
(a) Felt.
(b) Seen.
(c) Known.
(d) Objective.

Short Answer Questions

1. The physical self or _______, is experienced as coherent, willful, and a physical entity relying on interpersonal capacities.

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

3. There is little evidence showing that psychological insults and ______ at one age predict later clinical problems.

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

5. According to the book, Erickson suggested several stages of development that included all of the following except _____.

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