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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. The third organizing perspective produces a ______ during which time language points to knowledge of self.
(a) Domain of resource relatedness.
(b) Domain of physical relatedness.
(c) Domain of psychological relatedness.
(d) Domain of verbal relatedness.

2. From 6-9 months of age, infants begin to consolidate a core sense of self that is no longer ______.
(a) Symbiotic.
(b) Probiotic.
(c) Amniotic.
(d) Neurotic.

3. Unlike other thinkers in the field, the author suggests that each developmental stage is ______.
(a) Separate and discrete.
(b) Integrated into the others.
(c) Discarded as the new one begins.
(d) Destroyed.

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

5. When capacities mature in infants, there is a _______ according to organizing subjective perspectives.
(a) Inter-subjective leap.
(b) Mental leap.
(c) Social leap.
(d) Physical leap.

Short Answer Questions

1. According to the book, Stern focuses on the sense of self because it can generate a/an ________ pattern of awareness.

2. _______ is developed when self and others acquire subjective mental states that can be recognized by the infant.

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

4. There are many forms of the self including all of the following except _______.

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

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