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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

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

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

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

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

7. Experimenters have found that the attunement process often occurs beyond ___________, as found from speaking with and researching mothers.
(a) Possibility.
(b) Affect.
(c) Reason.
(d) Awareness.

8. 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) Subjective.
(b) Outer.
(c) Layering.
(d) Inner.

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

10. 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.
(a) Education.
(b) Imitation.
(c) Understanding.
(d) Speculation.

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

12. Stern states that affect attunement is a form of __________, rather than something else entirely.
(a) Attunement.
(b) Development.
(c) Possibility.
(d) Therapy.

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

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

15. The sense of a core self is built out of patterns of __________ which maintain themselves in an equilibrium that becomes a sense of self.
(a) History.
(b) Movement.
(c) Interaction.
(d) Experience.

Short Answer Questions

1. The interpersonal ______ created by attunement is crucial for helping an infant realize that internal feeling states can be shared with others.

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

3. By considering new experimental findings, Stern can begin to infer the _________ experience of the sense of self.

4. 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.

5. The relationships that develop because of language create a new subjective _______ and domain of relatedness for the infant.

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