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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part I, The Questions and Their Background, Chapter 2, Perspectives and Approaches to Infancy.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Stern asserts that there are some elements of the sense of self that exist prior to language use including all of the following except ______.
(a) Physical cohesion.
(b) Sense of agency.
(c) Permanent continuity.
(d) Temporary continuity.

2. The book mentions several maturational tasks that must be adapted to include all of the following except ______.
(a) Physiological dis-regulation.
(b) Environmental regulation.
(c) Social exchange.
(d) Physiological regulation.

3. At ______ of age infants seem to sense that they have an interior subjective life and that others do as well.
(a) 18 months.
(b) 3 months.
(c) 9 months.
(d) 36 months.

4. New stages of development create _____ senses of self such as with newly acquired behaviors and capabilities.
(a) Static.
(b) Diminuitive.
(c) Altered.
(d) Resistant.

5. Stern's developmental approach is seen to mirror most closely that of Mahler and ______.
(a) James.
(b) Winnicott.
(c) Bowlby.
(d) Klein.

Short Answer Questions

1. Psychological theories are based on hypotheses about the subject's ______ experience, which is otherwise unknowable.

2. Freud hypothesized several developmental stages including all of the following except ______.

3. According to the book, the ______ infant was thought to be connected to the social world.

4. According to the book, there are several senses associated with the self, some found ______, others are not.

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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