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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. At this stage of development, infants become emotionally responsive to the perceptions of the _________ states of others.
(a) Emotional.
(b) Psychic.
(c) Physical.
(d) Financial.

3. Sleep or ________ problems can also be what manifests after a person's core sense of self is dissolved for some reason.
(a) Learning.
(b) Family.
(c) Eating.
(d) Book.

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

5. Children also begin to acquire a capacity to engage in _________ play, or the process of imitating the actions of adults in their lives.
(a) Symbolic.
(b) Coloring.
(c) Witness.
(d) Maturing.

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

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

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

9. Often, cases can be isolated according to particular senses of _________, which makes pathology easier to diagnose and to treat.
(a) Other.
(b) Interaction.
(c) Attunement.
(d) Self.

10. The interpersonal ______ created by attunement is crucial for helping an infant realize that internal feeling states can be shared with others.
(a) Communion.
(b) Aspecting.
(c) Conversation.
(d) Education.

11. _________ believed that in the first few months of life that an infant had a protective shield against stimuli that might affect development.
(a) Freud.
(b) Stern.
(c) Jung.
(d) Smith.

12. 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.

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

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

15. In Stern's mind, psychopathology should be seen as manifesting in a continuum of pattern ______________.
(a) Accumulation.
(b) Definition.
(c) Emergence.
(d) Aggression.

Short Answer Questions

1. Stern states that affect attunement is a form of __________, rather than something else entirely.

2. Stern notes there is some evidence from _________ research to support the view that emotional states have an important organizing role.

3. Experimenters believe that ________ affects and vitality affects are attuned to, but perhaps primarily, vitality affects.

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. Infants have the same active regulatory _______ with the external world as does anyone at any age of development.

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