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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. _______ is not experienced by the infant, only experiences and the integration of experiences.

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

3. During the phase characterized by a sense of subjective self, infants can utilize all of the following capacities except ______.

4. In the first eight weeks of life, Stern believes that infants form a sense of a/an ______ self.

5. From birth to two months of age, the _____ is employed to relate diverse experiences, affects, perceptions and events.

Short Essay Questions

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

2. How does psychoanalysis define progressive reorganizations of infant psychology, according to the content of the book?

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

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

5. What are the four different senses that are involved in the sense of core self, according to the content of the book?

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

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

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

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

10. How do clinical and parental views of an infant begin to converge, according to the content of the book?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

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 2

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?

Essay Topic 3

Infants, Stern observes, do not separate the world into different units, i.e. pleasure and lack of pleasure.

Part 1: Why do you think babies do not categorize the world?

Part 2: How would your life change if you did not attempt to categorize the world?

Part 3: Would you want your life to be uncategorized? What would this allow you to do?

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