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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. Cumulative interactive patterns, for example, may be the source of many extreme _________ disorders, though finding the cause might be impossible.
(a) Energy.
(b) Family.
(c) Infant.
(d) Personality.

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

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

4. Experimenters believe that ________ affects and vitality affects are attuned to, but perhaps primarily, vitality affects.
(a) Maturation.
(b) Action.
(c) Discreet.
(d) Discrete.

5. _________ in theories of developmental origin, according to Stern, should be maintained.
(a) Respect.
(b) Usefulness.
(c) Promise.
(d) Flexibility.

Short Answer Questions

1. The book states that affect attunement might truly have something to do with a process of ____________, which many mothers appear to be able to do.

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

3. The period of __________ of each sense of self is probably a sensitive period and should be focused on in therapy, according to Stern.

4. Infants must understand the idea of __________, or their execution of the act and the ability to change between the two realities.

5. Therapists should focus more on looking for narrative points of __________ in patients than to look at specific development stages.

Short Essay Questions

1. What development has Stern's book sought to describe and to explore?

2. What does the development of the infant infer, according to Stern's findings?

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

10. What are the stages of development that Stern recommends foregoing in terms of analysis?

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