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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. Stern would like his work to serve as a _______ for clinical practice and for family life as a whole.
(a) Analogy.
(b) Metaphor.
(c) Calendar.
(d) Guideline.

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

4. Traditional theories are limited because they think of the phases of development as being ______-specific.
(a) Action.
(b) Age.
(c) Environment.
(d) Gender.

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

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

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) Evocative.
(b) Expressive.
(c) RIGs.
(d) Pressive.

8. Sometimes equilibria form, but require a lot of ________ from others to maintain , according to Stern's findings.
(a) Criticism.
(b) Input.
(c) Support.
(d) Energy.

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

10. Few therapists, according to Stern, believe the idea of the ________ has any special significance in development.
(a) Mouth.
(b) Eye.
(c) Ear.
(d) Hand.

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

12. Stern doesn't like the idea of a barrier to stimuli because it is based on the idea of a period of life in which an infant is uninterested in ___________.
(a) Language.
(b) Parents.
(c) Stimulus.
(d) Learning.

13. 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) Engagement.
(b) Mind-reading.
(c) Active attunement.
(d) Sacred touch.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. The nature of therapy will be best determined by which domain of __________ is most affected in the patient.

2. One indicator that might show possible future dangers for a core sense of self might be whether the infant's tolerance for ___________ is high.

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.

4. The infant always has some, at least rudimentary, sense of ____________, according to Stern in his findings and research.

5. Therapists should focus more on looking for narrative points of __________ in patients than to look at specific development stages.

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