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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. With language, the self and the ________ can now relate in an enormous number of ways and with shared varied meanings.
(a) Other.
(b) World.
(c) Parent.
(d) Teacher.

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

3. Attunement is often seen as a stepping stone to __________, according to some researchers.
(a) Language.
(b) Relationships.
(c) Connection.
(d) Learning.

4. At times, search strategies and certain therapeutic approaches cause therapists to overemphasize some problems in _______, while ignoring others.
(a) Emergence.
(b) Families.
(c) Movement.
(d) Development.

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.
(a) Inner being.
(b) Other.
(c) Inner knowing.
(d) Self.

6. 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.

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

8. A process of change, according to Stern, will take many __________ of clients before it comes to pass.
(a) Histories.
(b) Generations.
(c) Sessions.
(d) Narratives.

9. What the infant enjoys and what reality is accepted arise together for the _________, not the latter after the former.
(a) Adult.
(b) Mother.
(c) Father.
(d) Infant.

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

11. __________ intensity, according to Stern, may not be the decisive influence that many have thought it to be.
(a) Effective.
(b) Infective.
(c) Problematic.
(d) Affective.

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

13. Stern says that more __________ is needed since the ideas he presents in this book are merely hypotheses.
(a) Infant case studies.
(b) Support.
(c) Experimentation.
(d) Research.

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

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) Dysphasia.
(d) Movement.

Short Answer Questions

1. The attunements between a mother and a child can be cross-__________, or crossing many different sensory practices.

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

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. _____________ are forms of non-localized distresses and can cause ongoing functions required to maintain social states to fail.

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

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