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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 believes that the infants have " ______ -like" experiences, yet they are based on a core self.
(a) Probiotic.
(b) Symbiotic.
(c) Fusion.
(d) Fission.

2. Lived experiences involve significant changes in an infant's _________ state that belongs to the self thought created by both the self and the other.
(a) Affect.
(b) Infect.
(c) Object.
(d) Subject.

3. Psychological theories are based on hypotheses about the subject's ______ experience, which is otherwise unknowable.
(a) Reflective.
(b) Subjective.
(c) Perspective.
(d) Objective.

4. When capacities mature in infants, there is a _______ according to organizing subjective perspectives.
(a) Social leap.
(b) Mental leap.
(c) Inter-subjective leap.
(d) Physical leap.

5. When the interpersonal world changes, the experience of __________ becomes possible for the infant.
(a) Memory.
(b) Enjoyment.
(c) Empathy.
(d) History.

Short Answer Questions

1. From birth to two months of age, the _____ is employed to relate diverse experiences, affects, perceptions and events.

2. Stern asserts that the process of subjectively experiencing social interactions requires _____ senses of self.

3. The subjective self is the part of development which occurs when an infant finds they have a ________ and that others do as well.

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

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

Short Essay Questions

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

2. Between what does Stern first need to distinguish before he can continue his study of infancy, according to the content of the book?

3. What are some of the developmental markers that will show up in an infant who is around eight weeks?

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

5. What does Stern say is the definition of the clinical infant as will be described and used in parts of this book?

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

7. What are the five different things that self-coherence integrates for the infant, according to the content of the book?

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

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

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

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