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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. An infant's ability to tolerate stimulation or regulate arousal may be linked to _________ disorders later in life, according to Stern.
(a) Power.
(b) Anxiety.
(c) Mania.
(d) Learning.

2. Experimenters have found that the attunement process often occurs beyond ___________, as found from speaking with and researching mothers.
(a) Affect.
(b) Reason.
(c) Possibility.
(d) Awareness.

3. _________, according to Stern, might result from difficulties translating information from one modality to another.
(a) Abilities.
(b) Geniuses.
(c) Pathologies.
(d) Family problems.

4. Stern notes there is some evidence from _________ research to support the view that emotional states have an important organizing role.
(a) Ancient.
(b) Memory.
(c) Criminal.
(d) Adult.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Neurological and ethological viewpoints provide evidence that a sense of ______ is more sensitive during its formation.

2. Stern sees the sharing of ________ states as the most important and the most clinically observable aspect of intersubjective relatedness.

3. Infants have the same active regulatory _______ with the external world as does anyone at any age of development.

4. Non-__________ is a situation in which the infant is unable to engage in an attunement of affect, as in the case of being around a mentally unstable person.

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

Short Essay Questions

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

2. Why might pathologies result in the study of the formation of self in the infant, according to Stern?

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

4. 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?

5. What sense is most sensitive during its formation, according to Stern in this book?

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

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

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

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

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

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