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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. The physical self or _______, is experienced as coherent, willful, and a physical entity relying on interpersonal capacities.
(a) Platonic sense of self.
(b) Residual sense of self.
(c) Experiential sense of self.
(d) Sense of a subjective self.

2. Core-__________ establishes physical and sensory distinctions between self and the other, according to the author's findings.
(a) Decision.
(b) Movements.
(c) Actions.
(d) Relatedness.

3. According to the book, infants seek ______ and have innate biases about the kinds and amount they seek.
(a) Sensory perception.
(b) Sensory stimulation.
(c) Sensory blockade.
(d) Sensory deprivation.

4. The subjective self opens a domain of intersubjective relatedness which builds on the __________ self.
(a) Inherent.
(b) Affective.
(c) Effective.
(d) Emergent.

5. Clinical and parental view tend to converge in believing the child has an active subjective life including ______.
(a) Lack of participation in the environment.
(b) Changing objective experiences.
(c) Changing vision.
(d) Changing emotions.

Short Answer Questions

1. According to the book, at around 8 weeks, infants begin to make direct _______ contact.

2. Stern continues to state that __________ ensured survival through group membership in the species and has generated ways to continue this work for survival purposes.

3. Stern describes several realms of experience without making any of them primary including all of the following except ______.

4. The term _______ emergence is used as a way to think about how the infant at this stage experiences the world.

5. Stern believes the _______ to have intersubjectivity is something that must develop as a result of maturation.

Short Essay Questions

1. What does intersubjective relatedness involve deliberately in the study of infants, according to the content of the book?

2. What does infant research note about the capability of the infant who is between two and three months?

3. What does the emergence of the subjective self mean for the infant in terms of opening a domain?

4. What are the two parts that make up the sense of the emergent self, according to Stern in this book?

5. What happens before a child begins to create a more social understanding of their world, according to Stern?

6. What are parts of the subjective experience in the Self with Other, according to Stern?

7. What are fusion like experiences dependent on, according to Stern in his findings about infants?

8. What are the three main questions the author seeks to explore and to answer within this book?

9. Why don't the two core selves of an infant get confused, according to the research of Stern?

10. How can a person begin to understand the experience of the social self, according to Stern?

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