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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. Primary psychological needs for __________, according to Stern, may also play a role in the emergence of intersubjectivity.

2. At ______ of age infants seem to sense that they have an interior subjective life and that others do as well.

3. Each of the separate emotions of an infant are assigned invariant self-_________ to associate with it.

4. Self-coherence integrates the unity of _________, the experience of being at a place at a certain time.

5. Unlike other thinkers in the field, the author suggests that each developmental stage is ______.

Short Essay Questions

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

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

3. What happens before a child begins to create a more social understanding of their world, according to Stern?

4. What is the problem with reactivity, according to this section of the book, in relation to an infant's story?

5. What have a number of revolutions in collecting information done for the study of infants?

6. What happens when an infant develops their sense of subjective self, according to the content of the book?

7. What does the emergence of the subjective self mean for the infant in terms of opening a domain?

8. What do caregivers of an infant do as a result of the infant seeing others as self-regulating, according to the content of the book?

9. What are the two parts that make up the sense of the emergent self, according to Stern in this book?

10. What is the goal of the book in its exploration of the subjective life of infants, according to the content of the book?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

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 2

The infant begins to understand that they have a mind and that others do too.

Part 1: Why is it important to realize that others have a mind too?

Part 2: Do you think that you understand that others have minds too? How?

Part 3: How do you think you can observe an infant who realizes that others have minds too?

Essay Topic 3

According to the book, during a certain time period, a child begins to see themselves objectively in the world.

Part 1: Why is it possible for a child to see themselves objectively?

Part 2: Do you think it's easy to see a child objectively in this world?

Part 3: How do you think you do in terms of seeing your own self objectively? Can you?

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