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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. _________, according to Stern, might result from difficulties translating information from one modality to another.
(a) Family problems.
(b) Pathologies.
(c) Geniuses.
(d) Abilities.

3. 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) Speculation.
(b) Understanding.
(c) Imitation.
(d) Education.

4. _____________ are forms of non-localized distresses and can cause ongoing functions required to maintain social states to fail.
(a) Access inputs.
(b) Primary discords.
(c) Primary learnings.
(d) Primitive agonies.

5. To learn, the representation of the knowledge must be laid down in long term memory, which means that the _________ memory must be developed.
(a) Expressive.
(b) RIGs.
(c) Evocative.
(d) Pressive.

6. However, other researchers have found that infants have optimum levels of __________ that they will seek and other levels they will avoid.
(a) Movement.
(b) Attunement.
(c) Stimulation.
(d) Love.

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

8. The process of ___________ and separation is not stage-specific but is ongoing throughout a life, as the self/other barrier is always being negotiated.
(a) Action.
(b) Individuation.
(c) Learning.
(d) Movement.

9. Regulation through the Freudian notion of the _______ is always present, according to Stern's findings.
(a) Id.
(b) Self.
(c) Superego.
(d) Ego.

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

11. The period of __________ of each sense of self is probably a sensitive period and should be focused on in therapy, according to Stern.
(a) Assessment.
(b) Attunement.
(c) Acknowledgement.
(d) Emergence.

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

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

14. Stern presents a notion of _______ sense of self which helps to develop a therapeutic metaphor because feelings can be turned into particulars which can then allow even closer analysis.
(a) Layering.
(b) Subjective.
(c) Outer.
(d) Inner.

15. By considering new experimental findings, Stern can begin to infer the _________ experience of the sense of self.
(a) Subjective.
(b) Attunement.
(c) Objective.
(d) Quantitive.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Children can begin to see themselves in a mirror, showing that they can now begin to see themselves ___________.

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

4. 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.

5. Children between fifteen and eighteen months can also begin to perform deferred _____ where they repeat behaviors observed and thus they can acquire new skills.

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