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

2. During the phase characterized by a sense of subjective self, infants can utilize all of the following capacities except ______.
(a) Sharing attention.
(b) Employing symbols.
(c) Focus.
(d) Attributing intentions.

3. An evoked companion becomes so ________ into experience, over time, that it need not be evoked anymore.
(a) Integrated.
(b) Pushed.
(c) Defined.
(d) Written.

4. From 6-9 months of age, infants begin to consolidate a core sense of self that is no longer ______.
(a) Symbiotic.
(b) Probiotic.
(c) Amniotic.
(d) Neurotic.

5. Stern asserts that infants in the emergent stage have _______ and cognitive processes that are not easily separated.
(a) Reactive.
(b) Somatic.
(c) Prospective.
(d) Affective.

Short Answer Questions

1. The sense of self-______ contains the sense of volition that comes before a motor act, according to the book.

2. Experiments suggest that episodes are representations of __________ that have been generalized, or RIGs.

3. In Chapter Two, Stern makes a distinction between the _______ infant and the observed infant.

4. Stern thinks of the infant's subjective viewpoint as that of the _________ and the solitary self and the other.

5. In the first eight weeks of life, Stern believes that infants form a sense of a/an ______ self.

Short Essay Questions

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

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

3. What are some of the things that language and self-reflection can do, according to the content of the book?

4. What does research show about infants and the experience of intersubjective stages in others, according to the content of the book?

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

6. 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?

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

8. What is the observed view of infancy, a dialogue that continues throughout the book?

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

10. What happens when an infant develops their sense of subjective self, according to the content of the book?

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