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

2. 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) Education.
(b) Speculation.
(c) Understanding.
(d) Imitation.

3. Often, cases can be isolated according to particular senses of _________, which makes pathology easier to diagnose and to treat.
(a) Self.
(b) Interaction.
(c) Attunement.
(d) Other.

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

5. Few therapists, according to Stern, believe the idea of the ________ has any special significance in development.
(a) Ear.
(b) Eye.
(c) Mouth.
(d) Hand.

Short Answer Questions

1. Regulation through the Freudian notion of the _______ is always present, according to Stern's findings.

2. Stern begins to discuss how the client and patient should reconstruct an effective _________ about the past.

3. By considering new experimental findings, Stern can begin to infer the _________ experience of the sense of self.

4. The relationships that develop because of language create a new subjective _______ and domain of relatedness for the infant.

5. Attunement is often seen as a stepping stone to __________, according to some researchers.

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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