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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 book claims that subjective infant experience can be ascertained through the study of ______.
(a) Sociology.
(b) Biology.
(c) Healthy infant development.
(d) Psychopathology.

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

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

4. There is some debate about how the elements in question 10 relate to the sense of self including all of the following ideas except _______.
(a) Revealing an existing sense of self.
(b) Transformation of the sense of self.
(c) Obscuring an existing sense of self.
(d) Creating the sense of self.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. From birth to two months of age, the _____ is employed to relate diverse experiences, affects, perceptions and events.

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

3. Unlike other thinkers in the field, the author suggests that each developmental stage is ______.

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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