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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 8, The Sense of a Verbal Self.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. From birth to two months of age, the _____ is employed to relate diverse experiences, affects, perceptions and events.
(a) Sense of an emergent self.
(b) Sense of an divergent self.
(c) Sense of a constricted self.
(d) Sense of an indulgent self.

2. Stern believes that the _______ is the primary organizing principle of development.
(a) Sense of self.
(b) Environment.
(c) Stages of development.
(d) Sense of others.

3. Infants can also develop self-regulating experiences with ___________ which can develop early, such as security blankets.
(a) Inanimate things.
(b) Other children.
(c) Bedding.
(d) Archetypal forms.

4. Stern's developmental approach is seen to mirror most closely that of Mahler and ______.
(a) Bowlby.
(b) James.
(c) Winnicott.
(d) Klein.

5. Integration is experiences as an episodic ___________, according to Stern in his writing.
(a) Moment.
(b) Memory.
(c) Movement.
(d) Learning.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. According to Stern, the sense of the emergent self has ______ main parts that participate.

3. Stern describes several realms of experience without making any of them primary including all of the following except ______.

4. Experiments suggest that episodes are representations of __________ that have been generalized, or RIGs.

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

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