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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. _____________ are forms of non-localized distresses and can cause ongoing functions required to maintain social states to fail.
(a) Primary learnings.
(b) Primary discords.
(c) Primitive agonies.
(d) Access inputs.

2. A process of change, according to Stern, will take many __________ of clients before it comes to pass.
(a) Generations.
(b) Narratives.
(c) Histories.
(d) Sessions.

3. _______ psychology can also aid in searching for causes when a diagnosis is already known, according to Stern.
(a) Pop.
(b) Self.
(c) Inner.
(d) Practice.

4. Stern says that more __________ is needed since the ideas he presents in this book are merely hypotheses.
(a) Infant case studies.
(b) Support.
(c) Research.
(d) Experimentation.

5. The nature of therapy will be best determined by which domain of __________ is most affected in the patient.
(a) Attunement.
(b) Action.
(c) Emergence.
(d) Experience.

Short Answer Questions

1. Children, at this time, also begin to use personal _______ when referring to themselves and others, and they begin to engage in empathic acts.

2. The process of ___________ and separation is not stage-specific but is ongoing throughout a life, as the self/other barrier is always being negotiated.

3. Children can begin to see themselves in a mirror, showing that they can now begin to see themselves ___________.

4. Infants and others negotiate meanings together, which generate self-other ___________, according to Stern in this book.

5. In Stern's mind, psychopathology should be seen as manifesting in a continuum of pattern ______________.

Short Essay Questions

1. What does Stern believe about the capacities that tie diverse experiences of the social world together?

2. What does it seem about the levels of stimulation that an infant experiences in their life, according to the content of the book?

3. What happens when a child reaches their second year of living, according to the book?

4. What should psychopathology be seen as manifesting, according to the findings of Stern?

5. What does Stern recognize about his theory, which he admits at the end of the book?

6. What does Freud believe about the first few months of an infant's life, according to the book?

7. Why does Stern omit the idea of an oral stage when he discusses the infant growth stages, according to the content of the book?

8. What might result in anxiety disorders later in life, according to Stern's studies in this book?

9. What does Stern see as being the most important and clinically observable aspect of intersubjective relatedness?

10. Why does Stern believe that the whole chain of reasoning that led to the idea of a barrier should be discarded?

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