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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. Regulation through the Freudian notion of the _______ is always present, according to Stern's findings.

2. Stern presents a notion of _______ sense of self which helps to develop a therapeutic metaphor because feelings can be turned into particulars which can then allow even closer analysis.

3. Stern doesn't like the idea of a barrier to stimuli because it is based on the idea of a period of life in which an infant is uninterested in ___________.

4. ________ affects are those affects which can be communicated through art and through behavior.

5. When an infant is unable to share their inner experiences, they might begin to focus on __________, rather than sharing.

Short Essay Questions

1. As what does Stern hope for his work to serve within psychology and in the world, according to the content of the book?

2. What does the quasi-imitation that happens between an infant and their mother produce?

3. Why does language cause a split in the experience of the self, according to the book?

4. What development has Stern's book sought to describe and to explore?

5. What do most experienced clinicians do in terms of the development theory, according to the book?

6. What does it seem about the levels of stimulation that an infant experiences in their life, according to the content of the book?

7. Why should the period of emergence of each sense of self be focused on when an infant is studied, according to the content of the book?

8. What does it mean when the book says it is cross-modal and that it can cross sensory modalities?

9. Why might pathologies result in the study of the formation of self in the infant, according to Stern?

10. At what age do mothers add a new dimension of affect attunement when they are with their infants?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

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?

Essay Topic 2

Psychology assumes that development is the progression from one stage to the next, according to the book.

Part 1: How do you think the a human progresses in their lives?

Part 2: Why do you think the model of stages might not be effective for following the development of a human?

Part 3: Do you think that development in your own life has occurred in stages?

Essay Topic 3

Stern believes that many of the experiences people experience as a whole are genetic in nature.

Part 1: What role do you think genetics play in the development of social experiences?

Part 2: Why do you think Stern believes that genetics are the source of many experiences?

Part 3: Do you think the idea of genetic-based experiences is limiting?

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