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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 _________ is an experience of being in the presence of a self-regulating other, according to the research of this book.

2. Lived experiences involve significant changes in an infant's _________ state that belongs to the self thought created by both the self and the other.

3. In Chapter Two, Stern makes a distinction between the _______ infant and the observed infant.

4. The third organizing perspective produces a ______ during which time language points to knowledge of self.

5. Clinical and parental view tend to converge in believing the child has an active subjective life including ______.

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

5. What does infant research note about the capability of the infant who is between two and three months?

6. 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?

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

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

9. What are the qualifications of Daniel Stern, according to the introduction of the book?

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Infants seem to be emotionally responsive to those around them, changing their moods based on how they feel others are acting.

Part 1: Do you agree that infants react to those around them?

Part 2: How do you think a parent should change their behavior if their infant reacts to the way they act?

Part 3: Why do you think infants might be programmed to respond to others around them?

Essay Topic 2

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 3

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?

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