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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part II, The Four Senses of the Self, Chapter 3, The Sense of an Emergent Self.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. According to the book, at around 8 weeks, infants begin to make direct _______ contact.
(a) Eye to eye.
(b) Hearing.
(c) Body.
(d) Mouth.

2. According to the book the author is both a psychoanalyst and a _______, one who studies child development.
(a) Biologist.
(b) Developmentalist.
(c) Experimentalist.
(d) Sociologist.

3. In the first eight weeks of life, Stern believes that infants form a sense of a/an ______ self.
(a) Inspired.
(b) Created.
(c) Emerging.
(d) Capacitated.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. The book claims that subjective infant experience can be ascertained through the study of ______.

2. The third organizing perspective produces a ______ during which time language points to knowledge of self.

3. According to the book, psychoanalysis is a _______ theory that is used to acquire information about patients.

4. At ______ of age infants seem to sense that they have an interior subjective life and that others do as well.

5. Stern asserts that infants in the emergent stage have _______ and cognitive processes that are not easily separated.

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