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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. The self with the other is a _________ experience, including merging, fusings, security gratification, and more, according to the author.
(a) Subjective.
(b) Honest.
(c) Natural.
(d) Objective.

2. Freud hypothesized several developmental stages including all of the following except ______.
(a) Anal.
(b) Oral.
(c) Mental.
(d) Genital.

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

4. An evoked companion becomes so ________ into experience, over time, that it need not be evoked anymore.
(a) Defined.
(b) Pushed.
(c) Integrated.
(d) Written.

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

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

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

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

9. Unlike other thinkers in the field, the author suggests that each developmental stage is ______.
(a) Discarded as the new one begins.
(b) Integrated into the others.
(c) Separate and discrete.
(d) Destroyed.

10. Stern believes that the _______ is the primary organizing principle of development.
(a) Sense of self.
(b) Environment.
(c) Stages of development.
(d) Sense of others.

11. 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.

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

14. The sense of core-self requires self-__________ because otherwise the sense of the core-self would evaporate with each new event.
(a) History.
(b) Building.
(c) Memorization.
(d) Learning.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. ________ is the idea that the infant's self concept is created by or at least altered by the narrative that she receives.

2. Self-coherence integrates the unity of _________, the experience of being at a place at a certain time.

3. During the phase characterized by a sense of subjective self, infants can utilize all of the following capacities except ______.

4. _________ involves the recall or recognition of invariants for the infant, according to the research.

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

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