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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part II, The Four Senses of Self, Chapter 4, The Sense of a Core Self, I, Self versus Other.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. The sense of a core self is thought to consist of many aspects including all of the following except ______.
(a) Self-coherence.
(b) Self-agency.
(c) Self-affectivity.
(d) Self-destruction.

2. The physical self or _______, is experienced as coherent, willful, and a physical entity relying on interpersonal capacities.
(a) Sense of a subjective self.
(b) Platonic sense of self.
(c) Residual sense of self.
(d) Experiential sense of self.

3. Hypothesizing about infant experience requires the use of an unobserved "_____ quality" in order to make an inference.
(a) Known.
(b) Felt.
(c) Seen.
(d) Objective.

4. This section describes the main objectives of the book and includes all of the following topics except ______.
(a) How infants perceive objects.
(b) Whether infants have a sense of self.
(c) How infants unify experience.
(d) How infants multiply experience.

5. There are many forms of the self including all of the following except _______.
(a) The agent of actions.
(b) The fractionated body.
(c) The integrated body.
(d) The creator of plans.

Short Answer Questions

1. Experiments suggest that episodes are representations of __________ that have been generalized, or RIGs.

2. According to the book, recent research indicates that the infant is capable of having a sense of self and ______.

3. According to Stern, the sense of the emergent self has ______ main parts that participate.

4. Stern describes four distinct senses of the self that emerge at different times including all of the following except ______.

5. ________ is the idea that the infant's self concept is created by or at least altered by the narrative that she receives.

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