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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Experiences of being with an other are active acts of _________ which come about due to the active integration process.
(a) Integration.
(b) Development.
(c) Impersonality.
(d) Learning.

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

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

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

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

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

7. 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 multiply experience.
(c) How infants perceive objects.
(d) How infants unify experience.

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

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

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

11. Psychological theories are based on hypotheses about the subject's ______ experience, which is otherwise unknowable.
(a) Objective.
(b) Reflective.
(c) Perspective.
(d) Subjective.

12. ___________ psychology has neglected the idea of intersubjective relatedness in regards to infants, according to the author.
(a) Popular.
(b) Academic.
(c) Therapeutic.
(d) Research oriented.

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

14. The ________, however, needs a sense of self-coherence in order to make sense of the senses of self-agency.
(a) Researcher.
(b) Teacher.
(c) Infant.
(d) Adult.

15. Clinical and parental view tend to converge in believing the child has an active subjective life including ______.
(a) Changing emotions.
(b) Lack of participation in the environment.
(c) Changing objective experiences.
(d) Changing vision.

Short Answer Questions

1. A distinct sense of being with the historical other over time generates a sense of an evoked _______ where a particular person is schematized.

2. Freud hypothesized several developmental stages including all of the following except ______.

3. The basic unit of memory is a coherent ________ which is an indivisible unit containing perceptions, affects, and actions.

4. According to Stern, the sense of the emergent self has ______ main parts that participate.

5. Infants begin to utilize various means in order to shift _______ and thus to create shared experiences, according to the author.

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