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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 describes several realms of experience without making any of them primary including all of the following except ______.
(a) Pleasure.
(b) Heuristic tone.
(c) Hedonic tone.
(d) Discrete categories of affect.

2. New stages of development create _____ senses of self such as with newly acquired behaviors and capabilities.
(a) Altered.
(b) Diminuitive.
(c) Resistant.
(d) Static.

3. According to the book, Erickson suggested several stages of development that included all of the following except _____.
(a) Sensory.
(b) Industry.
(c) Autonomy.
(d) Trust.

4. Freud hypothesized several developmental stages including all of the following except ______.
(a) Mental.
(b) Oral.
(c) Anal.
(d) Genital.

5. In the first eight weeks of life, Stern believes that infants form a sense of a/an ______ self.
(a) Created.
(b) Capacitated.
(c) Inspired.
(d) Emerging.

Short Answer Questions

1. Stern believes that the _______ is the primary organizing principle of development.

2. The book claims that subjective infant experience can be ascertained through the study of ______.

3. Although this stage is secondary, the development of the self is thought to _______.

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

5. Lived experiences involve significant changes in an infant's _________ state that belongs to the self thought created by both the self and the other.

Short Essay Questions

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

2. What is the problem with reactivity, according to this section of the book, in relation to an infant's story?

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

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

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

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

8. What does core-relatedness do for the infant as they are growing up in the world, according to the content of the book?

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

10. How do clinical and parental views of an infant begin to converge, according to the content of the book?

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