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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.

Short Answer Questions

1. According to the book, Erickson suggested several stages of development that included all of the following except _____.

2. Stern describes several realms of experience without making any of them primary including all of the following except ______.

3. Experiments suggest that episodes are representations of __________ that have been generalized, or RIGs.

4. New stages of development create _____ senses of self such as with newly acquired behaviors and capabilities.

5. _________ are often shared around infants as well through protolinguistic forms, according to Stern.

Short Essay Questions

1. What happens as a result of infants having a central disposition to create and test the hypotheses of the world?

2. What are the three main questions the author seeks to explore and to answer within this book?

3. What does research show about infants and the experience of intersubjective stages in others, according to the content of the book?

4. During this stage of the infant's growth, how does the interpersonal world change, according to the content of the book?

5. What happens to infants when they are between the second and third months of life?

6. What does core-relatedness do for the infant as they are growing up in the world, according to the content of the book?

7. What are the differences between the observed infant and the clinical infant in terms of social interaction?

8. Between what does Stern first need to distinguish before he can continue his study of infancy, according to the content of the book?

9. What are some of the things that language and self-reflection can do, according to the content of the book?

10. Why don't the two core selves of an infant get confused, according to the research of Stern?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Freud believed that a child, at the beginning of life, had a protective shield against stimuli.

Part 1: Why do you think Freud believed that children were not subject to stimuli at first?

Part 2: Do you agree with Freud's idea that children lack the ability to understand and perceive stimuli?

Part 3: How do you think a child's experience is changed if they experience stimuli at a younger age?

Essay Topic 2

When a child begins to acquire language, it changes their entire experience of the world.

Part 1: Do you think language is an important acquisition for a human? Why?

Part 2: How do you feel language helps you or hurts you in your life today?

Part 3: Do you think a human could be a human without being able to talk in the way many do?

Essay Topic 3

Stern seems to be using the study of infants to help readers learn more about human nature in general.

Part 1: Do infants seem to be a good way to study human nature?

Part 2: Why is the study of human nature important to the audience?

Part 3: How might human behavior change after learning more about infants?

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