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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. According to the book, at around 8 weeks, infants begin to make direct _______ contact.
(a) Body.
(b) Mouth.
(c) Hearing.
(d) Eye to eye.

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

3. The developmentalist picture helps to account for the lack of differentiation of experience including ______.
(a) Confused social events.
(b) Problems digesting food.
(c) Disturbed sleep patterns.
(d) Integrated social events.

4. In Chapter Two, Stern makes a distinction between the _______ infant and the observed infant.
(a) Subjective.
(b) Large.
(c) Clinical.
(d) Small.

5. The first sense of a self created in the first 8 weeks will remain active for _______.
(a) The rest of life.
(b) The first year of life.
(c) The first twenty years of life.
(d) The first ten years of life.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. One of the needs of infants at this stage is for ________, usually provided by the parents.

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

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

5. Psychological theories are based on hypotheses about the subject's ______ experience, which is otherwise unknowable.

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