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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Children between fifteen and eighteen months can also begin to perform deferred _____ where they repeat behaviors observed and thus they can acquire new skills.
(a) Education.
(b) Witnessing.
(c) Imitation.
(d) Learning.

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

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

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

5. Therapists should focus more on looking for narrative points of __________ in patients than to look at specific development stages.
(a) Movement.
(b) Emergence.
(c) Activity.
(d) Origin.

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

7. 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.

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

9. Stern sees the sharing of ________ states as the most important and the most clinically observable aspect of intersubjective relatedness.
(a) Impact.
(b) Motor.
(c) Effective.
(d) Affective.

10. 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) Individuation.
(b) Action.
(c) Movement.
(d) Learning.

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

12. One indicator that might show possible future dangers for a core sense of self might be whether the infant's tolerance for ___________ is high.
(a) Understimulation.
(b) Learning.
(c) Overstimulation.
(d) Noise.

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

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

15. 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) Learning.
(b) Attunement.
(c) Movement.
(d) Dysphasia.

Short Answer Questions

1. ________ affects are those affects which can be communicated through art and through behavior.

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

3. Attunement is often seen as a stepping stone to __________, according to some researchers.

4. The period of __________ of each sense of self is probably a sensitive period and should be focused on in therapy, according to Stern.

5. Stern notes that it is likely that __________ implications of this metaphor will come about slowly and indirectly.

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