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

2. Stern asserts that the process of subjectively experiencing social interactions requires _____ senses of self.
(a) Four.
(b) Three.
(c) Two.
(d) Five.

3. The first sense of a self created in the first 8 weeks will remain active for _______.
(a) The first year of life.
(b) The first ten years of life.
(c) The first twenty years of life.
(d) The rest of life.

4. Agency, coherence, affectivity, and continuity must be __________ within the infant and memory may provide the answer.
(a) Blossomed.
(b) Grown.
(c) Integrated.
(d) Moved.

5. The physical self or _______, is experienced as coherent, willful, and a physical entity relying on interpersonal capacities.
(a) Platonic sense of self.
(b) Sense of a subjective self.
(c) Residual sense of self.
(d) Experiential sense of self.

6. The child experiences organization through two forms, _______ perception and constructionistic efforts.
(a) Unimodal.
(b) Amodal.
(c) Trimodal.
(d) Bimodal.

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

8. ________ are formed as a result of the repeat events, of the repeat lived experiences that infants experience.
(a) PIGs.
(b) RIGs.
(c) TIPs.
(d) TIGs.

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

10. One of the primary objectives of the core self stage is to develop a/an ________ world so the infant can interact.
(a) Interpersonal.
(b) Intrapersonal.
(c) Individual.
(d) Extrapersonal.

11. The sense of a core self is thought to consist of many aspects including all of the following except ______.
(a) Self-destruction.
(b) Self-agency.
(c) Self-coherence.
(d) Self-affectivity.

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

13. Self-___________ involves the sense of self that experiences affects and emotions, according to the author's findings.
(a) Agency.
(b) Affectivity.
(c) Coherence.
(d) Destruction.

14. There is some debate about how the elements in question 10 relate to the sense of self including all of the following ideas except _______.
(a) Revealing an existing sense of self.
(b) Obscuring an existing sense of self.
(c) Transformation of the sense of self.
(d) Creating the sense of self.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. The infant is actually embedded within a social _______ which is the consequence of the actions of others, according to the author.

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. Stern believes the _______ to have intersubjectivity is something that must develop as a result of maturation.

4. The sense of self-______ contains the sense of volition that comes before a motor act, according to the book.

5. The _________ of RIGs becomes a representation that is assigned a set of retrieval cues, according to the author.

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