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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. An infant's ability to tolerate stimulation or regulate arousal may be linked to _________ disorders later in life, according to Stern.

2. Infants must understand the idea of __________, or their execution of the act and the ability to change between the two realities.

3. Attunement is often seen as a stepping stone to __________, according to some researchers.

4. _________ believed that in the first few months of life that an infant had a protective shield against stimuli that might affect development.

5. Sleep or ________ problems can also be what manifests after a person's core sense of self is dissolved for some reason.

Short Essay Questions

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

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

3. 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?

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

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

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

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

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

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

10. What does Stern believe about the capacities that tie diverse experiences of the social world together?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

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?

Essay Topic 2

By the time an infant is three months, Stern notes that the infant is a more distinct individual.

Part 1: Do you feel that you are a distinct individual?

Part 2: How does the development of a human progress when they are able to see themselves as a distinct individual?

Part 3: What might happen if a person were unable to see themselves as a distinct individual?

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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