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

2. ________ affects are those affects which can be communicated through art and through behavior.
(a) Vitality.
(b) Discrete.
(c) Discreet.
(d) Method.

3. Experimenters have found that the attunement process often occurs beyond ___________, as found from speaking with and researching mothers.
(a) Awareness.
(b) Affect.
(c) Reason.
(d) Possibility.

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

5. In Stern's mind, psychopathology should be seen as manifesting in a continuum of pattern ______________.
(a) Definition.
(b) Accumulation.
(c) Emergence.
(d) Aggression.

Short Answer Questions

1. At the same time, language can also create a split in the experience of the ______ because it can only partially represent other senses of self.

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

3. Self psychology, according to Stern, offers the most ________ value when it suggests search strategies that help construct life narratives.

4. Cumulative interactive patterns, for example, may be the source of many extreme _________ disorders, though finding the cause might be impossible.

5. A process of change, according to Stern, will take many __________ of clients before it comes to pass.

Short Essay Questions

1. What are the three senses of self, as listed in this section of the book by Stern?

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

3. What does it seem about the levels of stimulation that an infant experiences in their life, 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 Stern believe about the capacities that tie diverse experiences of the social world together?

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

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

9. 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?

10. Why might pathologies result in the study of the formation of self in the infant, according to Stern?

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