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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part II, The Four Senses of Self, Chapter 6, The Sense of a Subjective Self, I, Overview.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. The book mentions several maturational tasks that must be adapted to include all of the following except ______.
(a) Environmental regulation.
(b) Physiological dis-regulation.
(c) Social exchange.
(d) Physiological regulation.

3. Stern describes four distinct senses of the self that emerge at different times including all of the following except ______.
(a) The verbal self.
(b) The core self.
(c) The divergent self.
(d) The emergent self.

4. The coherence of _______ is the sense that an obvious property belongs to someone, according to the author.
(a) Form.
(b) Location.
(c) Power.
(d) Locus.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Infants then begin to experience _________ from the idea of a self-regulating other, which then can lead to a sense of security and of attachment.

2. According to the book, Stern focuses on the sense of self because it can generate a/an ________ pattern of awareness.

3. During the seventh to ninth month of development, infants are ________, but they can still create experiences that are shared.

4. Stern's developmental approach is seen to mirror most closely that of Mahler and ______.

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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