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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. This section describes the main objectives of the book and includes all of the following topics except ______.
(a) Whether infants have a sense of self.
(b) How infants perceive objects.
(c) How infants multiply experience.
(d) How infants unify experience.

3. _______ is developed when self and others acquire subjective mental states that can be recognized by the infant.
(a) Subjective relatedness.
(b) Objective relatedness.
(c) Intrasubjective relatedness.
(d) Intersubjective relatedness.

4. According to the book, Stern explores the nature of the infant's experience through the study of the ______.
(a) Other.
(b) Siblings.
(c) Parents.
(d) Self.

5. According to the book, there are several senses associated with the self, some found ______, others are not.
(a) Outside of the body.
(b) Inside the body.
(c) In a valley.
(d) Outside of awareness.

6. The third organizing perspective produces a ______ during which time language points to knowledge of self.
(a) Domain of verbal relatedness.
(b) Domain of resource relatedness.
(c) Domain of physical relatedness.
(d) Domain of psychological relatedness.

7. Core-__________ establishes physical and sensory distinctions between self and the other, according to the author's findings.
(a) Actions.
(b) Decision.
(c) Movements.
(d) Relatedness.

8. Interpersonal ________ then transitions from overt actions to the internal subjective states behind those behaviors.
(a) Therapy.
(b) Witnessing.
(c) Movement.
(d) Action.

9. A distinct sense of being with the historical other over time generates a sense of an evoked _______ where a particular person is schematized.
(a) Identity.
(b) Experience.
(c) Companion.
(d) Definition.

10. According to the book, the ______ infant was thought to be connected to the social world.
(a) Clinical.
(b) Small.
(c) Objective.
(d) Observed.

11. The developmentalist picture helps to account for the lack of differentiation of experience including ______.
(a) Disturbed sleep patterns.
(b) Problems digesting food.
(c) Confused social events.
(d) Integrated social events.

12. Stern describes several realms of experience without making any of them primary including all of the following except ______.
(a) Pleasure.
(b) Discrete categories of affect.
(c) Hedonic tone.
(d) Heuristic tone.

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

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. ___________ psychology has neglected the idea of intersubjective relatedness in regards to infants, according to the author.

2. According to the book, Erickson suggested several stages of development that included all of the following except _____.

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

4. At ______ of age infants seem to sense that they have an interior subjective life and that others do as well.

5. Infants then begin to experience _________ from the idea of a self-regulating other, which then can lead to a sense of security and of attachment.

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