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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) Origin.
(c) Movement.
(d) Activity.

2. _______ psychology can also aid in searching for causes when a diagnosis is already known, according to Stern.
(a) Self.
(b) Practice.
(c) Pop.
(d) Inner.

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

4. Clinicians should keep _________ theory in the background when they practice, according to Stern.
(a) Attachment.
(b) Development.
(c) Attunement.
(d) Practical.

5. In Stern's mind, psychopathology should be seen as manifesting in a continuum of pattern ______________.
(a) Emergence.
(b) Definition.
(c) Accumulation.
(d) Aggression.

6. Self psychology, according to Stern, offers the most ________ value when it suggests search strategies that help construct life narratives.
(a) Clinical.
(b) Personal.
(c) Medical.
(d) Academic.

7. Children between fifteen and eighteen months can also begin to perform deferred _____ where they repeat behaviors observed and thus they can acquire new skills.
(a) Witnessing.
(b) Education.
(c) Learning.
(d) Imitation.

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

9. By considering new experimental findings, Stern can begin to infer the _________ experience of the sense of self.
(a) Quantitive.
(b) Subjective.
(c) Objective.
(d) Attunement.

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

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

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

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

14. 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.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Infants and others negotiate meanings together, which generate self-other ___________, according to Stern in this book.

2. At this stage of development, infants become emotionally responsive to the perceptions of the _________ states of others.

3. _________ believed that in the first few months of life that an infant had a protective shield against stimuli that might affect development.

4. However, other researchers have found that infants have optimum levels of __________ that they will seek and other levels they will avoid.

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

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