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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. Infants must understand the idea of __________, or their execution of the act and the ability to change between the two realities.
(a) Results.
(b) Reversibility.
(c) Perfection.
(d) Interaction.

2. When searching for causes of ________ personality disorder, for example, different theories look for an experience of abandonment or isolation as a cause.
(a) Mood.
(b) Anxiety.
(c) Borderline.
(d) Paranoid.

3. The process of affect attunement is a bit of a mystery, though many have speculated that ________ is not enough to get the process off the ground.
(a) Understanding.
(b) Imitation.
(c) Speculation.
(d) Education.

4. Stern would like his work to serve as a _______ for clinical practice and for family life as a whole.
(a) Analogy.
(b) Calendar.
(c) Metaphor.
(d) Guideline.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. At this stage of development, infants become emotionally responsive to the perceptions of the _________ states of others.

2. Stern notes there is some evidence from _________ research to support the view that emotional states have an important organizing role.

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

4. _________ of sense of self also help to identify a helpful narrative point of origin for the therapist when working with a client.

5. _________ believed that in the first few months of life that an infant had a protective shield against stimuli that might affect development.

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

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

7. 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?

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

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

10. What do most experienced clinicians do in terms of the development theory, according to the book?

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