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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

3. Once a child's ________ year of life begins, their language skills improve and begin to be a part of their experience.
(a) Second.
(b) First.
(c) Fifth.
(d) Third.

4. _____________ are forms of non-localized distresses and can cause ongoing functions required to maintain social states to fail.
(a) Primitive agonies.
(b) Primary learnings.
(c) Primary discords.
(d) Access inputs.

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

6. Children, at this time, also begin to use personal _______ when referring to themselves and others, and they begin to engage in empathic acts.
(a) Movements.
(b) Pronouns.
(c) Adjectives.
(d) Subjects.

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) Learning.
(b) Education.
(c) Witnessing.
(d) Imitation.

8. The relationships that develop because of language create a new subjective _______ and domain of relatedness for the infant.
(a) Perspective.
(b) Movement.
(c) Objective.
(d) History.

9. 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) Experience.
(b) Interaction.
(c) History.
(d) Movement.

10. Sleep or ________ problems can also be what manifests after a person's core sense of self is dissolved for some reason.
(a) Book.
(b) Learning.
(c) Eating.
(d) Family.

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

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

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) Learning.
(b) Movement.
(c) Individuation.
(d) Action.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. 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.

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

3. Experimenters have found that the attunement process often occurs beyond ___________, as found from speaking with and researching mothers.

4. Few therapists, according to Stern, believe the idea of the ________ has any special significance in development.

5. Stern begins to discuss how the client and patient should reconstruct an effective _________ about the past.

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