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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. __________ enables identifying what property belongs to which person, according to the author, which prevents the two core selves from getting confused.
(a) Teaching.
(b) Nutrition.
(c) Action.
(d) Variety.

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

3. One of the primary objectives of the core self stage is to develop a/an ________ world so the infant can interact.
(a) Interpersonal.
(b) Extrapersonal.
(c) Intrapersonal.
(d) Individual.

4. Although this stage is secondary, the development of the self is thought to _______.
(a) Occur within this stage.
(b) Occur later in development.
(c) Have occured much earlier.
(d) Be unrelated.

5. Stern asserts that the sense of self is certainly present following language use and ______ awareness.
(a) Reflective.
(b) Constructive.
(c) Self-reflective.
(d) External.

6. During the sense of a core self stage, the infant has a more wholly integrated mode of _______.
(a) Physical interaction.
(b) Social interaction.
(c) Scholastic interaction.
(d) Mental interaction.

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

8. The subjective self is the part of development which occurs when an infant finds they have a ________ and that others do as well.
(a) Head.
(b) Mind.
(c) Name.
(d) Purpose.

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

10. An evoked companion becomes so ________ into experience, over time, that it need not be evoked anymore.
(a) Defined.
(b) Written.
(c) Pushed.
(d) Integrated.

11. Primary psychological needs for __________, according to Stern, may also play a role in the emergence of intersubjectivity.
(a) Relatedness.
(b) Movement.
(c) Acknowledgement.
(d) Help.

12. The term _______ emergence is used as a way to think about how the infant at this stage experiences the world.
(a) Individual.
(b) Local.
(c) Global.
(d) Familial.

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

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

15. Stern thinks of the infant's subjective viewpoint as that of the _________ and the solitary self and the other.
(a) I self.
(b) You self.
(c) We self.
(d) Baby self.

Short Answer Questions

1. According to the book, Stern explores the nature of the infant's experience through the study of the ______.

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

3. Lived experiences involve significant changes in an infant's _________ state that belongs to the self thought created by both the self and the other.

4. The first sense of a self created in the first 8 weeks will remain active for _______.

5. The coherence of _______ is the sense that an obvious property belongs to someone, according to the author.

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