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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. Although this stage is secondary, the development of the self is thought to _______.
(a) Have occured much earlier.
(b) Be unrelated.
(c) Occur within this stage.
(d) Occur later in development.

2. In Chapter Two, Stern makes a distinction between the _______ infant and the observed infant.
(a) Clinical.
(b) Subjective.
(c) Large.
(d) Small.

3. The basic unit of memory is a coherent ________ which is an indivisible unit containing perceptions, affects, and actions.
(a) Episode.
(b) Structure.
(c) Remembrance.
(d) Card.

4. Psychological theories are based on hypotheses about the subject's ______ experience, which is otherwise unknowable.
(a) Objective.
(b) Subjective.
(c) Perspective.
(d) Reflective.

5. At this stage of development, infants become emotionally responsive to the perceptions of the _________ states of others.
(a) Psychic.
(b) Physical.
(c) Financial.
(d) Emotional.

Short Answer Questions

1. The book mentions several maturational tasks that must be adapted to include all of the following except ______.

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

3. The sense of core-self requires self-__________ because otherwise the sense of the core-self would evaporate with each new event.

4. The _________ is an experience of being in the presence of a self-regulating other, according to the research of this book.

5. Each of the separate emotions of an infant are assigned invariant self-_________ to associate with it.

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