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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. Infants must understand the idea of __________, or their execution of the act and the ability to change between the two realities.
(a) Results.
(b) Perfection.
(c) Reversibility.
(d) Interaction.

3. An infant's ability to tolerate stimulation or regulate arousal may be linked to _________ disorders later in life, according to Stern.
(a) Mania.
(b) Learning.
(c) Power.
(d) Anxiety.

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

5. 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.

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

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

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

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

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

11. Stern notes there is some evidence from _________ research to support the view that emotional states have an important organizing role.
(a) Adult.
(b) Ancient.
(c) Criminal.
(d) Memory.

12. Neurological and ethological viewpoints provide evidence that a sense of ______ is more sensitive during its formation.
(a) Memory.
(b) Knowledge.
(c) Other.
(d) Self.

13. 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) Movement.
(c) Learning.
(d) Individuation.

14. 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) Witness.
(c) Maturing.
(d) Coloring.

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

Short Answer Questions

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

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

3. What is NOT one of the three different qualities that can be matched in the process of affect attunement?

4. Regulation through the Freudian notion of the _______ is always present, according to Stern's findings.

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.

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