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

2. Children can begin to see themselves in a mirror, showing that they can now begin to see themselves ___________.
(a) Objectively.
(b) Impressively.
(c) Subjectively.
(d) Actively.

3. 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 ___________.
(a) Parents.
(b) Stimulus.
(c) Learning.
(d) Language.

4. Children between fifteen and eighteen months can also begin to perform deferred _____ where they repeat behaviors observed and thus they can acquire new skills.
(a) Learning.
(b) Education.
(c) Imitation.
(d) Witnessing.

5. Just as ________ develop, according to Stern, so must the theories about what they experience and who they are.
(a) Adults.
(b) Therapists.
(c) Infants.
(d) Narratives.

Short Answer Questions

1. Neurological and ethological viewpoints provide evidence that a sense of ______ is more sensitive during its formation.

2. Infants must have two versions of the same _______ available, as they enter into this stage of development.

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

4. 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.

5. Infants have the same active regulatory _______ with the external world as does anyone at any age of development.

Short Essay Questions

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

2. What does it mean when the book says it is cross-modal and that it can cross sensory modalities?

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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