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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. From birth to two months of age, the _____ is employed to relate diverse experiences, affects, perceptions and events.
(a) Sense of an divergent self.
(b) Sense of an indulgent self.
(c) Sense of an emergent self.
(d) Sense of a constricted self.

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

3. During the phase characterized by a sense of subjective self, infants can utilize all of the following capacities except ______.
(a) Sharing attention.
(b) Employing symbols.
(c) Focus.
(d) Attributing intentions.

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

5. The _________ is an experience of being in the presence of a self-regulating other, according to the research of this book.
(a) Evoked companion.
(b) Self-identity.
(c) Self-affectivity.
(d) Self-commitment.

6. The term _______ emergence is used as a way to think about how the infant at this stage experiences the world.
(a) Local.
(b) Individual.
(c) Familial.
(d) Global.

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

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

9. The subjective self opens a domain of intersubjective relatedness which builds on the __________ self.
(a) Effective.
(b) Affective.
(c) Inherent.
(d) Emergent.

10. The domain of intersubjective relatedness arises from something called _______ attunement, according to Stern.
(a) Impact.
(b) Effect.
(c) Movement.
(d) Affect.

11. Self-coherence integrates the unity of _________, the experience of being at a place at a certain time.
(a) Locus.
(b) Location.
(c) Presence.
(d) Truth.

12. During the sense of a core self stage, the infant has a more wholly integrated mode of _______.
(a) Physical interaction.
(b) Social interaction.
(c) Mental interaction.
(d) Scholastic interaction.

13. 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.
(a) Commitment.
(b) Movement.
(c) Peace.
(d) Arousal.

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

15. When capacities mature in infants, there is a _______ according to organizing subjective perspectives.
(a) Social leap.
(b) Inter-subjective leap.
(c) Physical leap.
(d) Mental leap.

Short Answer Questions

1. Infants begin to learn that they can share subjective ________ with others and they begin to develop a working theory of how other minds work.

2. ___________ can regulate the infant's attention and engagement as a result of the idea of self-regulation that is happening to the infant and around them.

3. In the first eight weeks of life, Stern believes that infants form a sense of a/an ______ self.

4. _______ is not experienced by the infant, only experiences and the integration of experiences.

5. The coherence of _______ is the sense that an obvious property belongs to someone, according to the author.

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