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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

3. Infants must have two versions of the same _______ available, as they enter into this stage of development.
(a) Mother.
(b) Other.
(c) Self.
(d) Reality.

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

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

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

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

8. Stern seeks to describe the development of the infant's sense of __________ in this book.
(a) World.
(b) Family.
(c) Self.
(d) Other.

9. 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) Individuation.
(d) Learning.

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

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

12. ________ affects are those affects which can be communicated through art and through behavior.
(a) Discrete.
(b) Vitality.
(c) Method.
(d) Discreet.

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

14. __________ theory has also given intense emotional states an important organizing role, according to Stern's research.
(a) Spock's.
(b) Psychoanalytic.
(c) Freudian.
(d) Jungian.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. With language, the self and the ________ can now relate in an enormous number of ways and with shared varied meanings.

2. _________ in theories of developmental origin, according to Stern, should be maintained.

3. When searching for causes of ________ personality disorder, for example, different theories look for an experience of abandonment or isolation as a cause.

4. At times, search strategies and certain therapeutic approaches cause therapists to overemphasize some problems in _______, while ignoring others.

5. 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.

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