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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

3. Stern believes that the infants have " ______ -like" experiences, yet they are based on a core self.
(a) Symbiotic.
(b) Fission.
(c) Fusion.
(d) Probiotic.

4. The sense of self-______ contains the sense of volition that comes before a motor act, according to the book.
(a) Agency.
(b) Destruction.
(c) Affectivity.
(d) Coherence.

5. According to the book new _______ has opened doors for acquiring new information and generating new theories.
(a) Social orders.
(b) Psychologies.
(c) Research.
(d) Species.

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

7. Stern asserts that there are some elements of the sense of self that exist prior to language use including all of the following except ______.
(a) Temporary continuity.
(b) Sense of agency.
(c) Permanent continuity.
(d) Physical cohesion.

8. Evidence is beginning to show that _________ can recognize the intersubjective stages in others as well.
(a) Animals.
(b) Children.
(c) Infants.
(d) Adults.

9. Stern continues to state that __________ ensured survival through group membership in the species and has generated ways to continue this work for survival purposes.
(a) Society.
(b) Mothers.
(c) Fathers.
(d) Evolution.

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

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

12. The third organizing perspective produces a ______ during which time language points to knowledge of self.
(a) Domain of verbal relatedness.
(b) Domain of physical relatedness.
(c) Domain of psychological relatedness.
(d) Domain of resource relatedness.

13. At ______ of age infants seem to sense that they have an interior subjective life and that others do as well.
(a) 9 months.
(b) 18 months.
(c) 3 months.
(d) 36 months.

14. One of the major parts of the emergent self has to do with _______ drawn between particular experiences.
(a) Reactions.
(b) Inflections.
(c) Connections.
(d) Contradictions.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Lived experiences involve significant changes in an infant's _________ state that belongs to the self thought created by both the self and the other.

2. According to the book, the ______ infant was thought to be connected to the social world.

3. The term _______ emergence is used as a way to think about how the infant at this stage experiences the world.

4. Stern describes several realms of experience without making any of them primary including all of the following except ______.

5. An evoked companion becomes so ________ into experience, over time, that it need not be evoked anymore.

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