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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. To learn, the representation of the knowledge must be laid down in long term memory, which means that the _________ memory must be developed.
(a) Evocative.
(b) Pressive.
(c) RIGs.
(d) Expressive.

2. However, other researchers have found that infants have optimum levels of __________ that they will seek and other levels they will avoid.
(a) Attunement.
(b) Love.
(c) Stimulation.
(d) Movement.

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

4. The process of ___________ and separation is not stage-specific but is ongoing throughout a life, as the self/other barrier is always being negotiated.
(a) Learning.
(b) Action.
(c) Individuation.
(d) Movement.

5. Stern states that affect attunement is a form of __________, rather than something else entirely.
(a) Possibility.
(b) Therapy.
(c) Attunement.
(d) Development.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Stern doesn't like the idea of a barrier to stimuli because it is based on the idea of a period of life in which an infant is uninterested in ___________.

3. Few therapists, according to Stern, believe the idea of the ________ has any special significance in development.

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

5. Children between fifteen and eighteen months can also begin to perform deferred _____ where they repeat behaviors observed and thus they can acquire new skills.

Short Essay Questions

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

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

3. What does it mean when Stern describes the idea of deferred imitation in children?

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

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

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

7. What does Stern recognize about his theory, which he admits at the end of 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 should psychopathology be seen as manifesting, according to the findings of 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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