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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 comes about when the distinct ________ is integrated with the idea of the distinct other.
(a) Headspace.
(b) Body.
(c) Self.
(d) Thought process.

2. The book claims that subjective infant experience can be ascertained through the study of ______.
(a) Sociology.
(b) Psychopathology.
(c) Healthy infant development.
(d) Biology.

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

5. 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.

6. Stern asserts that infants in the emergent stage have _______ and cognitive processes that are not easily separated.
(a) Reactive.
(b) Prospective.
(c) Affective.
(d) Somatic.

7. Infants begin to utilize various means in order to shift _______ and thus to create shared experiences, according to the author.
(a) Connection.
(b) Position.
(c) Movement.
(d) Attention.

8. 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.

9. Integration is experiences as an episodic ___________, according to Stern in his writing.
(a) Movement.
(b) Learning.
(c) Moment.
(d) Memory.

10. New stages of development create _____ senses of self such as with newly acquired behaviors and capabilities.
(a) Diminuitive.
(b) Resistant.
(c) Static.
(d) Altered.

11. A distinct sense of being with the historical other over time generates a sense of an evoked _______ where a particular person is schematized.
(a) Experience.
(b) Definition.
(c) Companion.
(d) Identity.

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

13. ________ is the idea that the infant's self concept is created by or at least altered by the narrative that she receives.
(a) Creativity.
(b) Proclivity.
(c) Passivity.
(d) Reactivity.

14. 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 vision.
(d) Changing objective experiences.

15. Although this stage is secondary, the development of the self is thought to _______.
(a) Occur within this stage.
(b) Be unrelated.
(c) Have occured much earlier.
(d) Occur later in development.

Short Answer Questions

1. The child experiences organization through two forms, _______ perception and constructionistic efforts.

2. _______ is developed when self and others acquire subjective mental states that can be recognized by the infant.

3. What type of psychology has NOT neglected the story of intersubjective relatedness, according to Stern?

4. One of the needs of infants at this stage is for ________, usually provided by the parents.

5. The domain of intersubjective relatedness arises from something called _______ attunement, according to Stern.

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