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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 5, The Sense of a Core Self, II, Self with Other.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. According to the book, Erickson suggested several stages of development that included all of the following except _____.
(a) Sensory.
(b) Trust.
(c) Industry.
(d) Autonomy.

2. From birth to two months of age, the _____ is employed to relate diverse experiences, affects, perceptions and events.
(a) Sense of a constricted self.
(b) Sense of an indulgent self.
(c) Sense of an divergent self.
(d) Sense of an emergent self.

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

5. The ________, however, needs a sense of self-coherence in order to make sense of the senses of self-agency.
(a) Infant.
(b) Teacher.
(c) Adult.
(d) Researcher.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Agency, coherence, affectivity, and continuity must be __________ within the infant and memory may provide the answer.

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

4. Clinical and parental view tend to converge in believing the child has an active subjective life including ______.

5. Infants can also develop self-regulating experiences with ___________ which can develop early, such as security blankets.

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