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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. The period of __________ of each sense of self is probably a sensitive period and should be focused on in therapy, according to Stern.
(a) Assessment.
(b) Emergence.
(c) Attunement.
(d) Acknowledgement.

2. In Stern's mind, psychopathology should be seen as manifesting in a continuum of pattern ______________.
(a) Aggression.
(b) Definition.
(c) Emergence.
(d) Accumulation.

3. Children, at this time, also begin to use personal _______ when referring to themselves and others, and they begin to engage in empathic acts.
(a) Subjects.
(b) Movements.
(c) Adjectives.
(d) Pronouns.

4. Stern thinks that more prospective ______ that test hypotheses that age-specific insults will predict later pathology in specific domains are needed.
(a) Infants.
(b) Families.
(c) Results.
(d) Studies.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. One indicator that might show possible future dangers for a core sense of self might be whether the infant's tolerance for ___________ is high.

2. Stern would like his work to serve as a _______ for clinical practice and for family life as a whole.

3. Clinicians should keep _________ theory in the background when they practice, according to Stern.

4. Stern notes that it is likely that __________ implications of this metaphor will come about slowly and indirectly.

5. A process of change, according to Stern, will take many __________ of clients before it comes to pass.

Short Essay Questions

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

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

4. What does the quasi-imitation that happens between an infant and their mother produce?

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

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

7. Why does language cause a split in the experience of the self, 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. What are the three senses of self, as listed in this section of the book by Stern?

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

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