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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Stern describes several realms of experience without making any of them primary including all of the following except ______.
(a) Heuristic tone.
(b) Hedonic tone.
(c) Discrete categories of affect.
(d) Pleasure.

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

3. The _________ is an experience of being in the presence of a self-regulating other, according to the research of this book.
(a) Self-identity.
(b) Self-affectivity.
(c) Self-commitment.
(d) Evoked companion.

4. _______ is not experienced by the infant, only experiences and the integration of experiences.
(a) Non-organization.
(b) Non-dysfunction.
(c) Non-direction.
(d) Non-pluralization.

5. Interpersonal ________ then transitions from overt actions to the internal subjective states behind those behaviors.
(a) Action.
(b) Therapy.
(c) Witnessing.
(d) Movement.

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

7. Core-__________ establishes physical and sensory distinctions between self and the other, according to the author's findings.
(a) Actions.
(b) Movements.
(c) Relatedness.
(d) Decision.

8. When the interpersonal world changes, the experience of __________ becomes possible for the infant.
(a) History.
(b) Enjoyment.
(c) Empathy.
(d) Memory.

9. 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) Movement.
(b) Peace.
(c) Commitment.
(d) Arousal.

10. Psychological theories are based on hypotheses about the subject's ______ experience, which is otherwise unknowable.
(a) Subjective.
(b) Objective.
(c) Perspective.
(d) Reflective.

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

12. The first sense of a self created in the first 8 weeks will remain active for _______.
(a) The first twenty years of life.
(b) The first ten years of life.
(c) The rest of life.
(d) The first year of life.

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

14. The sense of core-self requires self-__________ because otherwise the sense of the core-self would evaporate with each new event.
(a) Building.
(b) History.
(c) Memorization.
(d) Learning.

15. According to the book, the ______ infant was thought to be connected to the social world.
(a) Observed.
(b) Objective.
(c) Clinical.
(d) Small.

Short Answer Questions

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

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

3. Stern asserts that the process of subjectively experiencing social interactions requires _____ senses of self.

4. A distinct sense of being with the historical other over time generates a sense of an evoked _______ where a particular person is schematized.

5. _________ are often shared around infants as well through protolinguistic forms, according to Stern.

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