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

2. According to Stern, the sense of the emergent self has ______ main parts that participate.
(a) Three.
(b) Four.
(c) Five.
(d) Two.

3. New stages of development create _____ senses of self such as with newly acquired behaviors and capabilities.
(a) Static.
(b) Resistant.
(c) Altered.
(d) Diminuitive.

4. The term _______ emergence is used as a way to think about how the infant at this stage experiences the world.
(a) Global.
(b) Familial.
(c) Individual.
(d) Local.

5. Stern asserts that the process of subjectively experiencing social interactions requires _____ senses of self.
(a) Five.
(b) Three.
(c) Four.
(d) Two.

Short Answer Questions

1. Constructionistic efforts are rooted in all of the following elements except ________.

2. Stern asserts that there are some elements of the sense of self that exist prior to language use including all of the following except ______.

3. Unlike other thinkers in the field, the author suggests that each developmental stage is ______.

4. The developmentalist picture helps to account for the lack of differentiation of experience including ______.

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

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