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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 asserts that infants in the emergent stage have _______ and cognitive processes that are not easily separated.
(a) Reactive.
(b) Prospective.
(c) Affective.
(d) Somatic.

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

3. According to the book the author is both a psychoanalyst and a _______, one who studies child development.
(a) Developmentalist.
(b) Sociologist.
(c) Biologist.
(d) Experimentalist.

4. When capacities mature in infants, there is a _______ according to organizing subjective perspectives.
(a) Social leap.
(b) Inter-subjective leap.
(c) Mental leap.
(d) Physical leap.

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. The book claims that subjective infant experience can be ascertained through the study of ______.

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

4. Infants in the emergent self stage have a disposition to create and test ______ about the world.

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

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