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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 basic unit of memory is a coherent ________ which is an indivisible unit containing perceptions, affects, and actions.
(a) Episode.
(b) Structure.
(c) Card.
(d) Remembrance.

2. According to Stern, the sense of the emergent self has ______ main parts that participate.
(a) Four.
(b) Three.
(c) Two.
(d) Five.

3. Stern believes the _______ to have intersubjectivity is something that must develop as a result of maturation.
(a) Capacity.
(b) Power.
(c) Emergence.
(d) Possibility.

4. The developmentalist picture helps to account for the lack of differentiation of experience including ______.
(a) Integrated social events.
(b) Disturbed sleep patterns.
(c) Problems digesting food.
(d) Confused social events.

5. The term _______ emergence is used as a way to think about how the infant at this stage experiences the world.
(a) Familial.
(b) Individual.
(c) Local.
(d) Global.

Short Answer Questions

1. From 6-9 months of age, infants begin to consolidate a core sense of self that is no longer ______.

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

3. Self-___________ involves the sense of self that experiences affects and emotions, according to the author's findings.

4. _______ is not experienced by the infant, only experiences and the integration of experiences.

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

Short Essay Questions

1. 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?

2. What is the goal of the book in its exploration of the subjective life of infants, according to the content of the book?

3. Between what does Stern first need to distinguish before he can continue his study of infancy, according to the content of the 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 is the observed view of infancy, a dialogue that continues throughout the book?

6. What happens as a result of infants having a central disposition to create and test the hypotheses of the world?

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

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

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

10. How does psychoanalysis define progressive reorganizations of infant psychology, according to the content of the book?

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