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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. Stern asserts that the process of subjectively experiencing social interactions requires _____ senses of self.
(a) Five.
(b) Two.
(c) Four.
(d) Three.

2. In Chapter Two, Stern makes a distinction between the _______ infant and the observed infant.
(a) Subjective.
(b) Small.
(c) Large.
(d) Clinical.

3. Experiences of being with an other are active acts of _________ which come about due to the active integration process.
(a) Learning.
(b) Integration.
(c) Development.
(d) Impersonality.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Stern describes four distinct senses of the self that emerge at different times including all of the following except ______.

2. Infants in the emergent self stage have a disposition to create and test ______ about the world.

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

4. According to the book, Erickson suggested several stages of development that included all of the following except _____.

5. ________ is the idea that the infant's self concept is created by or at least altered by the narrative that she receives.

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

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

6. What are the differences between the observed infant and the clinical infant in terms of social interaction?

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

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

9. What are some of the many forms of what might be called the self, according to this book?

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

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