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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 book claims that subjective infant experience can be ascertained through the study of ______.
(a) Healthy infant development.
(b) Psychopathology.
(c) Sociology.
(d) Biology.

2. Evidence is beginning to show that _________ can recognize the intersubjective stages in others as well.
(a) Animals.
(b) Adults.
(c) Infants.
(d) Children.

3. According to the book, Stern focuses on the sense of self because it can generate a/an ________ pattern of awareness.
(a) Ingenous.
(b) Invariant.
(c) Variant.
(d) Discontinuous.

4. Stern believes that the _______ is the primary organizing principle of development.
(a) Sense of others.
(b) Stages of development.
(c) Sense of self.
(d) Environment.

5. The third organizing perspective produces a ______ during which time language points to knowledge of self.
(a) Domain of resource relatedness.
(b) Domain of verbal relatedness.
(c) Domain of physical relatedness.
(d) Domain of psychological relatedness.

Short Answer Questions

1. Self-_________ becomes tied to the behaviors of the self-regulating other because they occur together.

2. The coherence of _______ is the sense that an obvious property belongs to someone, according to the author.

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

4. __________ enables identifying what property belongs to which person, according to the author, which prevents the two core selves from getting confused.

5. This section describes the main objectives of the book and includes all of the following topics except ______.

Short Essay Questions

1. What happens when an infant gains a sense of core self for herself and for others?

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

3. How do the experiences of being with another become active acts of integration, according to the content of the book?

4. What are the four different senses that are involved in the sense of core self, according to the content of the book?

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

6. What are the qualifications of Daniel Stern, according to the introduction of the book?

7. What do caregivers of an infant do as a result of the infant seeing others as self-regulating, according to the content of the book?

8. What have a number of revolutions in collecting information done for the study of infants?

9. What does Stern believe is part of the reason for infants responding to parental behavior, according to the content of the book?

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

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