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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, psychoanalysis is a _______ theory that is used to acquire information about patients.
(a) Clinical medical.
(b) Clinical biological.
(c) Clinical sociological.
(d) Clinical psychological.

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

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

4. According to the book, Stern explores the nature of the infant's experience through the study of the ______.
(a) Siblings.
(b) Other.
(c) Parents.
(d) Self.

5. According to the book, the ______ infant was thought to be connected to the social world.
(a) Objective.
(b) Observed.
(c) Small.
(d) Clinical.

Short Answer Questions

1. According to the book, infants seek ______ and have innate biases about the kinds and amount they seek.

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

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

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

5. Stern describes four distinct senses of the self that emerge at different times including all of the following except ______.

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