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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. Stern describes several realms of experience without making any of them primary including all of the following except ______.
(a) Hedonic tone.
(b) Discrete categories of affect.
(c) Pleasure.
(d) Heuristic tone.

2. Psychological theories are based on hypotheses about the subject's ______ experience, which is otherwise unknowable.
(a) Objective.
(b) Reflective.
(c) Perspective.
(d) Subjective.

3. From birth to two months of age, the _____ is employed to relate diverse experiences, affects, perceptions and events.
(a) Sense of a constricted self.
(b) Sense of an indulgent self.
(c) Sense of an divergent self.
(d) Sense of an emergent self.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

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

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

3. According to the book the author is both a psychoanalyst and a _______, one who studies child development.

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

5. ________ is the idea that the infant's self concept is created by or at least altered by the narrative that she receives.

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