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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Self-___________ involves the sense of self that experiences affects and emotions, according to the author's findings.
(a) Coherence.
(b) Agency.
(c) Affectivity.
(d) Destruction.

2. The sense of a core self is thought to consist of many aspects including all of the following except ______.
(a) Self-destruction.
(b) Self-agency.
(c) Self-coherence.
(d) Self-affectivity.

3. The self with the other is a _________ experience, including merging, fusings, security gratification, and more, according to the author.
(a) Objective.
(b) Subjective.
(c) Natural.
(d) Honest.

4. Stern believes that the _______ is the primary organizing principle of development.
(a) Environment.
(b) Stages of development.
(c) Sense of self.
(d) Sense of others.

5. 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) Permanent continuity.
(b) Physical cohesion.
(c) Sense of agency.
(d) Temporary continuity.

6. Infants then begin to experience _________ from the idea of a self-regulating other, which then can lead to a sense of security and of attachment.
(a) Commitment.
(b) Peace.
(c) Movement.
(d) Arousal.

7. According to the book, psychoanalysis is a _______ theory that is used to acquire information about patients.
(a) Clinical medical.
(b) Clinical psychological.
(c) Clinical biological.
(d) Clinical sociological.

8. The _________ self begins to establish a theory of self and others' subjective stages on top of their own development.
(a) Adult.
(b) Objective.
(c) Infant.
(d) Subjective.

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

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

11. The developmentalist picture helps to account for the lack of differentiation of experience including ______.
(a) Confused social events.
(b) Integrated social events.
(c) Problems digesting food.
(d) Disturbed sleep patterns.

12. Infants can also develop self-regulating experiences with ___________ which can develop early, such as security blankets.
(a) Other children.
(b) Archetypal forms.
(c) Inanimate things.
(d) Bedding.

13. Lived experiences involve significant changes in an infant's _________ state that belongs to the self thought created by both the self and the other.
(a) Object.
(b) Subject.
(c) Infect.
(d) Affect.

14. There have been several revolutions in _______ that have enabled the formation of new experimental paradigms.
(a) Distributing information.
(b) Filtering information.
(c) Disseminating information.
(d) Collecting information.

15. According to the book, infants seek ______ and have innate biases about the kinds and amount they seek.
(a) Sensory blockade.
(b) Sensory perception.
(c) Sensory stimulation.
(d) Sensory deprivation.

Short Answer Questions

1. Evidence is beginning to show that _________ can recognize the intersubjective stages in others as well.

2. Infants in the emergent self stage have a disposition to create and test ______ about the world.

3. According to the book the author is both a psychoanalyst and a _______, one who studies child development.

4. Self-_________ becomes tied to the behaviors of the self-regulating other because they occur together.

5. One of the needs of infants at this stage is for ________, usually provided by the parents.

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