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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

3. There are many forms of the self including all of the following except _______.
(a) The integrated body.
(b) The fractionated body.
(c) The creator of plans.
(d) The agent of actions.

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

5. There is little evidence showing that psychological insults and ______ at one age predict later clinical problems.
(a) Ideas.
(b) Attitudes.
(c) Development.
(d) Trauma.

6. Self-_________ becomes tied to the behaviors of the self-regulating other because they occur together.
(a) Experience.
(b) Identity.
(c) Coherence.
(d) Understanding.

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

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

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

10. New stages of development create _____ senses of self such as with newly acquired behaviors and capabilities.
(a) Static.
(b) Diminuitive.
(c) Altered.
(d) Resistant.

11. Stern believes the _______ to have intersubjectivity is something that must develop as a result of maturation.
(a) Capacity.
(b) Power.
(c) Emergence.
(d) Possibility.

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

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

14. Lived experiences involve significant changes in an infant's _________ state that belongs to the self thought created by both the self and the other.
(a) Affect.
(b) Subject.
(c) Object.
(d) Infect.

15. Hypothesizing about infant experience requires the use of an unobserved "_____ quality" in order to make an inference.
(a) Felt.
(b) Objective.
(c) Seen.
(d) Known.

Short Answer Questions

1. When capacities mature in infants, there is a _______ according to organizing subjective perspectives.

2. Self-___________ involves the sense of self that experiences affects and emotions, according to the author's findings.

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

4. __________ enables identifying what property belongs to which person, according to the author, which prevents the two core selves from getting confused.

5. One of the primary objectives of the core self stage is to develop a/an ________ world so the infant can interact.

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