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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. _________ believed that in the first few months of life that an infant had a protective shield against stimuli that might affect development.
(a) Smith.
(b) Stern.
(c) Freud.
(d) Jung.

2. Stern seeks to describe the development of the infant's sense of __________ in this book.
(a) World.
(b) Family.
(c) Self.
(d) Other.

3. To learn, the representation of the knowledge must be laid down in long term memory, which means that the _________ memory must be developed.
(a) Expressive.
(b) Pressive.
(c) RIGs.
(d) Evocative.

4. The relationships that develop because of language create a new subjective _______ and domain of relatedness for the infant.
(a) Objective.
(b) History.
(c) Perspective.
(d) Movement.

5. Children can begin to see themselves in a mirror, showing that they can now begin to see themselves ___________.
(a) Actively.
(b) Objectively.
(c) Impressively.
(d) Subjectively.

Short Answer Questions

1. The infant always has some, at least rudimentary, sense of ____________, according to Stern in his findings and research.

2. Often, cases can be isolated according to particular senses of _________, which makes pathology easier to diagnose and to treat.

3. The experience of the answer in #140 might be felt as the dissolution of the core sense of ________.

4. Infants must have two versions of the same _______ available, as they enter into this stage of development.

5. The attunements between a mother and a child can be cross-__________, or crossing many different sensory practices.

Short Essay Questions

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

2. At what age do mothers add a new dimension of affect attunement when they are with their infants?

3. Why should the period of emergence of each sense of self be focused on when an infant is studied, according to the content of the book?

4. What are the three senses of self, as listed in this section of the book by Stern?

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

6. As what does Stern hope for his work to serve within psychology and in the world, according to the content of the book?

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

8. What does it mean when the book says it is cross-modal and that it can cross sensory modalities?

9. Why does language cause a split in the experience of the self, according to the book?

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

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