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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. One of the major parts of the emergent self has to do with _______ drawn between particular experiences.
(a) Contradictions.
(b) Inflections.
(c) Connections.
(d) Reactions.

3. The observed infant consists of the ________ that the infant demonstrates while under observation.
(a) Behaviors.
(b) Thoughts.
(c) Dreams.
(d) Subjective experiences.

4. According to the book, infants seek ______ and have innate biases about the kinds and amount they seek.
(a) Sensory perception.
(b) Sensory blockade.
(c) Sensory deprivation.
(d) Sensory stimulation.

5. According to the book the infant does not see the world in terms of separate domains, it is experienced as ______.
(a) Separate.
(b) Prioritized.
(c) Divided.
(d) Unified.

6. According to the book, Erickson suggested several stages of development that included all of the following except _____.
(a) Autonomy.
(b) Sensory.
(c) Industry.
(d) Trust.

7. According to the book, recent research indicates that the infant is capable of having a sense of self and ______.
(a) Others.
(b) Emotions.
(c) Thoughts.
(d) Body.

8. The infant, at this stage, becomes capable of ____________ intimacy and thus the parental socialization becomes a more important issue.
(a) Psychical.
(b) Educational.
(c) Environmental.
(d) Physical.

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

10. Stern asserts that infants in the emergent stage have _______ and cognitive processes that are not easily separated.
(a) Affective.
(b) Somatic.
(c) Reactive.
(d) Prospective.

11. According to the book the author is both a psychoanalyst and a _______, one who studies child development.
(a) Developmentalist.
(b) Experimentalist.
(c) Sociologist.
(d) Biologist.

12. According to Stern, the sense of the emergent self has ______ main parts that participate.
(a) Three.
(b) Five.
(c) Four.
(d) Two.

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

14. Constructionistic efforts are rooted in all of the following elements except ________.
(a) Assimilation.
(b) Accomodation.
(c) Association.
(d) Aspiration.

15. According to the book, psychoanalysis is a _______ theory that is used to acquire information about patients.
(a) Clinical biological.
(b) Clinical medical.
(c) Clinical sociological.
(d) Clinical psychological.

Short Answer Questions

1. The _________ self begins to establish a theory of self and others' subjective stages on top of their own development.

2. Stern believes that the infants have " ______ -like" experiences, yet they are based on a core self.

3. _________ are often shared around infants as well through protolinguistic forms, according to Stern.

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

5. According to the book, the ______ infant was thought to be connected to the social world.

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