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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. 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 emotions.
(d) Changing vision.

2. Stern describes four distinct senses of the self that emerge at different times including all of the following except ______.
(a) The emergent self.
(b) The core self.
(c) The verbal self.
(d) The divergent self.

3. Self-_________ becomes tied to the behaviors of the self-regulating other because they occur together.
(a) Identity.
(b) Coherence.
(c) Experience.
(d) Understanding.

4. According to the book the author is both a psychoanalyst and a _______, one who studies child development.
(a) Sociologist.
(b) Developmentalist.
(c) Experimentalist.
(d) Biologist.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Constructionistic efforts are rooted in all of the following elements except ________.

2. _______ is developed when self and others acquire subjective mental states that can be recognized by the infant.

3. The child experiences organization through two forms, _______ perception and constructionistic efforts.

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

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

Short Essay Questions

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

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

3. What happens to infants when they are between the second and third months of life?

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

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

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

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

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

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

10. What may always be too much for the behavioral sciences, though it must still be theorized about?

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