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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. Therapists should focus more on looking for narrative points of __________ in patients than to look at specific development stages.
(a) Emergence.
(b) Origin.
(c) Movement.
(d) Activity.

2. The nature of therapy will be best determined by which domain of __________ is most affected in the patient.
(a) Attunement.
(b) Action.
(c) Emergence.
(d) Experience.

3. Children also begin to acquire a capacity to engage in _________ play, or the process of imitating the actions of adults in their lives.
(a) Coloring.
(b) Witness.
(c) Maturing.
(d) Symbolic.

4. One indicator that might show possible future dangers for a core sense of self might be whether the infant's tolerance for ___________ is high.
(a) Learning.
(b) Overstimulation.
(c) Understimulation.
(d) Noise.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Infants and others negotiate meanings together, which generate self-other ___________, according to Stern in this book.

2. The experience of the answer in #140 might be felt as the dissolution of the core sense of ________.

3. The sense of a core self is built out of patterns of __________ which maintain themselves in an equilibrium that becomes a sense of self.

4. _____________ are forms of non-localized distresses and can cause ongoing functions required to maintain social states to fail.

5. To learn, the representation of the knowledge must be laid down in long term memory, which means that the _________ memory must be developed.

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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