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

2. One of the needs of infants at this stage is for ________, usually provided by the parents.
(a) Physiological regulation.
(b) Behavior regulation.
(c) Eye movement regulation.
(d) Movement regulation.

3. An evoked companion becomes so ________ into experience, over time, that it need not be evoked anymore.
(a) Defined.
(b) Written.
(c) Integrated.
(d) Pushed.

4. ________ is the idea that the infant's self concept is created by or at least altered by the narrative that she receives.
(a) Proclivity.
(b) Creativity.
(c) Passivity.
(d) Reactivity.

5. The child experiences organization through two forms, _______ perception and constructionistic efforts.
(a) Bimodal.
(b) Unimodal.
(c) Amodal.
(d) Trimodal.

Short Answer Questions

1. Hypothesizing about infant experience requires the use of an unobserved "_____ quality" in order to make an inference.

2. Interpersonal ________ then transitions from overt actions to the internal subjective states behind those behaviors.

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

4. The ________, however, needs a sense of self-coherence in order to make sense of the senses of self-agency.

5. During the phase characterized by a sense of subjective self, infants can utilize all of the following capacities except ______.

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