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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. Stern begins to discuss how the client and patient should reconstruct an effective _________ about the past.
(a) Narrative.
(b) Picture.
(c) Truth.
(d) Agreement.

2. Traditional theories are limited because they think of the phases of development as being ______-specific.
(a) Action.
(b) Age.
(c) Gender.
(d) Environment.

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

4. _________, according to Stern, might result from difficulties translating information from one modality to another.
(a) Abilities.
(b) Pathologies.
(c) Family problems.
(d) Geniuses.

5. 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) Pronouns.
(d) Movements.

Short Answer Questions

1. Stern presents a notion of _______ sense of self which helps to develop a therapeutic metaphor because feelings can be turned into particulars which can then allow even closer analysis.

2. Stern thinks that more prospective ______ that test hypotheses that age-specific insults will predict later pathology in specific domains are needed.

3. At times, search strategies and certain therapeutic approaches cause therapists to overemphasize some problems in _______, while ignoring others.

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

5. However, other researchers have found that infants have optimum levels of __________ that they will seek and other levels they will avoid.

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 see as being the most important and clinically observable aspect of intersubjective relatedness?

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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