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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. __________ theory has also given intense emotional states an important organizing role, according to Stern's research.
(a) Freudian.
(b) Psychoanalytic.
(c) Spock's.
(d) Jungian.

3. Cumulative interactive patterns, for example, may be the source of many extreme _________ disorders, though finding the cause might be impossible.
(a) Personality.
(b) Infant.
(c) Family.
(d) Energy.

4. Children can begin to see themselves in a mirror, showing that they can now begin to see themselves ___________.
(a) Objectively.
(b) Actively.
(c) Impressively.
(d) Subjectively.

5. 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.

6. _________ of sense of self also help to identify a helpful narrative point of origin for the therapist when working with a client.
(a) Activities.
(b) Words.
(c) Domains.
(d) Interactions.

7. The process of affect attunement is a bit of a mystery, though many have speculated that ________ is not enough to get the process off the ground.
(a) Understanding.
(b) Imitation.
(c) Education.
(d) Speculation.

8. Attunement is often seen as a stepping stone to __________, according to some researchers.
(a) Language.
(b) Learning.
(c) Relationships.
(d) Connection.

9. What is NOT one of the three different qualities that can be matched in the process of affect attunement?
(a) Language.
(b) Timing.
(c) Intensity.
(d) Shape of behavior.

10. The infant always has some, at least rudimentary, sense of ____________, according to Stern in his findings and research.
(a) Self.
(b) Separateness.
(c) Future.
(d) Movement.

11. _________ in theories of developmental origin, according to Stern, should be maintained.
(a) Usefulness.
(b) Respect.
(c) Flexibility.
(d) Promise.

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

13. Stern notes that it is likely that __________ implications of this metaphor will come about slowly and indirectly.
(a) Medical.
(b) Personal.
(c) Clinical.
(d) Academic.

14. When an infant is unable to share their inner experiences, they might begin to focus on __________, rather than sharing.
(a) Regulation.
(b) Internalizing.
(c) Ignoring.
(d) Avoiding.

15. Experimenters believe that ________ affects and vitality affects are attuned to, but perhaps primarily, vitality affects.
(a) Action.
(b) Discrete.
(c) Maturation.
(d) Discreet.

Short Answer Questions

1. The attunements between a mother and a child can be cross-__________, or crossing many different sensory practices.

2. The sense of a core self is built out of patterns of __________ which maintain themselves in an equilibrium that becomes a sense of self.

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.

4. 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.

5. __________ intensity, according to Stern, may not be the decisive influence that many have thought it to be.

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