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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Infants and others negotiate meanings together, which generate self-other ___________, according to Stern in this book.
(a) Interaction.
(b) Understanding.
(c) Lessons.
(d) Relatedness.

2. The nature of therapy will be best determined by which domain of __________ is most affected in the patient.
(a) Emergence.
(b) Experience.
(c) Action.
(d) Attunement.

3. The book states that affect attunement might truly have something to do with a process of ____________, which many mothers appear to be able to do.
(a) Active attunement.
(b) Engagement.
(c) Mind-reading.
(d) Sacred touch.

4. Stern says that more __________ is needed since the ideas he presents in this book are merely hypotheses.
(a) Support.
(b) Infant case studies.
(c) Research.
(d) Experimentation.

5. _______ psychology can also aid in searching for causes when a diagnosis is already known, according to Stern.
(a) Inner.
(b) Pop.
(c) Practice.
(d) Self.

6. Infants must have two versions of the same _______ available, as they enter into this stage of development.
(a) Other.
(b) Self.
(c) Reality.
(d) Mother.

7. Stern seeks to describe the development of the infant's sense of __________ in this book.
(a) Other.
(b) World.
(c) Self.
(d) Family.

8. At the same time, language can also create a split in the experience of the ______ because it can only partially represent other senses of self.
(a) Other.
(b) Self.
(c) Inner being.
(d) Inner knowing.

9. Just as ________ develop, according to Stern, so must the theories about what they experience and who they are.
(a) Therapists.
(b) Narratives.
(c) Infants.
(d) Adults.

10. The attunements between a mother and a child can be cross-__________, or crossing many different sensory practices.
(a) Action.
(b) Movement.
(c) Piecing.
(d) Modal.

11. Infants have the same active regulatory _______ with the external world as does anyone at any age of development.
(a) Traffic.
(b) Barriers.
(c) Movement.
(d) Activity.

12. A process of change, according to Stern, will take many __________ of clients before it comes to pass.
(a) Generations.
(b) Sessions.
(c) Histories.
(d) Narratives.

13. Stern states that affect attunement is a form of __________, rather than something else entirely.
(a) Attunement.
(b) Therapy.
(c) Development.
(d) Possibility.

14. Non-__________ is a situation in which the infant is unable to engage in an attunement of affect, as in the case of being around a mentally unstable person.
(a) Attunement.
(b) Dysphasia.
(c) Learning.
(d) Movement.

15. Stern thinks that more prospective ______ that test hypotheses that age-specific insults will predict later pathology in specific domains are needed.
(a) Families.
(b) Infants.
(c) Studies.
(d) Results.

Short Answer Questions

1. What the infant enjoys and what reality is accepted arise together for the _________, not the latter after the former.

2. Neurological and ethological viewpoints provide evidence that a sense of ______ is more sensitive during its formation.

3. To learn, the representation of the knowledge must be laid down in long term memory, which means that the _________ memory must be developed.

4. Sleep or ________ problems can also be what manifests after a person's core sense of self is dissolved for some reason.

5. By considering new experimental findings, Stern can begin to infer the _________ experience of the sense of self.

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