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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. With language, the self and the ________ can now relate in an enormous number of ways and with shared varied meanings.

2. Few therapists, according to Stern, believe the idea of the ________ has any special significance in development.

3. Stern notes there is some evidence from _________ research to support the view that emotional states have an important organizing role.

4. Children can begin to see themselves in a mirror, showing that they can now begin to see themselves ___________.

5. The book states that affect attunement might truly have something to do with a process of ____________, which many mothers appear to be able to do.

Short Essay Questions

1. What does Freud believe about the first few months of an infant's life, according to the book?

2. What does Stern recognize about his theory, which he admits at the end of the book?

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

4. What are the stages of development that Stern recommends foregoing in terms of analysis?

5. What should psychopathology be seen as manifesting, according to the findings of Stern?

6. Why does Stern omit the idea of an oral stage when he discusses the infant growth stages, according to the content of the book?

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

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

9. What sense is most sensitive during its formation, according to Stern in this book?

10. What does Stern see as being the most important and clinically observable aspect of intersubjective relatedness?

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

The ideas of the Self and the Other are a discussion that Stern has in the book, though the discussion does not seem to be conclusive.

Part 1: How would you define the idea of the Self in this book?

Part 2: How would you define the Other, as described and discussed in this book?

Part 3: Why do you think the discussion of the Self and the Other is important? Or isn't it?

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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