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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. The self with the other is a _________ experience, including merging, fusings, security gratification, and more, according to the author.

2. Stern asserts that the sense of self is certainly present following language use and ______ awareness.

3. According to the book the author is both a psychoanalyst and a _______, one who studies child development.

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

5. During the sense of a core self stage, the infant has a more wholly integrated mode of _______.

Short Essay Questions

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

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

3. What does intersubjective relatedness involve deliberately in the study of infants, according to the content of the book?

4. What may always be too much for the behavioral sciences, though it must still be theorized about?

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

6. What happens when an infant gains a sense of core self for herself and for others?

7. What are some of the many forms of what might be called the self, according to this book?

8. What are fusion like experiences dependent on, according to Stern in his findings about infants?

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

10. What are parts of the subjective experience in the Self with Other, according to Stern?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

In this book, it seems that Stern believes infants have a strong sense of their core self when in social situations.

Part 1: Does it seem possible for infants to have a sense of core self?

Part 2: How do you define your core self?

Part 3: Why do you think many people feel they don't understand a sense of core self?

Essay Topic 2

Stern notes that evolution ensured survival through group membership in a species.

Part 1: Do you agree that a person needs to be a part of a group to survive?

Part 2: Do you think you could survive on your own?

Part 3: What are some of the ways that being in a group can increase your survival as a human being?

Essay Topic 3

Stern notes that the infant always has a certain sense of separateness from the rest of the world.

Part 1: Why do you think Stern believes infants are always feeling a sense of separateness?

Part 2: How do you think an infant is affected by being separate or feeling separate from others?

Part 3: How might you change if you were kept separate from others in the world?

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