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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. During the seventh to ninth month of development, infants are ________, but they can still create experiences that are shared.
(a) Pre-visual.
(b) Pre-movement.
(c) Preverbal.
(d) Pre-memory.

2. _________ are often shared around infants as well through protolinguistic forms, according to Stern.
(a) Excuses.
(b) Movements.
(c) Intentions.
(d) Stories.

3. The ________, however, needs a sense of self-coherence in order to make sense of the senses of self-agency.
(a) Researcher.
(b) Adult.
(c) Teacher.
(d) Infant.

4. The book claims that subjective infant experience can be ascertained through the study of ______.
(a) Biology.
(b) Sociology.
(c) Psychopathology.
(d) Healthy infant development.

5. What type of psychology has NOT neglected the story of intersubjective relatedness, according to Stern?
(a) Psychoanalysis.
(b) Academic psychology.
(c) Medical psychology.
(d) Pop psychology.

Short Answer Questions

1. One of the needs of infants at this stage is for ________, usually provided by the parents.

2. Attunement is often seen as a stepping stone to __________, according to some researchers.

3. The subjective self is the part of development which occurs when an infant finds they have a ________ and that others do as well.

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

5. Clinical and parental view tend to converge in believing the child has an active subjective life including ______.

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