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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. The period of __________ of each sense of self is probably a sensitive period and should be focused on in therapy, according to Stern.
(a) Emergence.
(b) Acknowledgement.
(c) Attunement.
(d) Assessment.

2. _____________ are forms of non-localized distresses and can cause ongoing functions required to maintain social states to fail.
(a) Primary learnings.
(b) Primary discords.
(c) Primitive agonies.
(d) Access inputs.

3. Few therapists, according to Stern, believe the idea of the ________ has any special significance in development.
(a) Ear.
(b) Eye.
(c) Mouth.
(d) Hand.

4. Stern begins to discuss how the client and patient should reconstruct an effective _________ about the past.
(a) Truth.
(b) Narrative.
(c) Agreement.
(d) Picture.

5. The interpersonal ______ created by attunement is crucial for helping an infant realize that internal feeling states can be shared with others.
(a) Conversation.
(b) Aspecting.
(c) Communion.
(d) Education.

6. Regulation through the Freudian notion of the _______ is always present, according to Stern's findings.
(a) Superego.
(b) Self.
(c) Id.
(d) Ego.

7. Infants must have two versions of the same _______ available, as they enter into this stage of development.
(a) Mother.
(b) Other.
(c) Self.
(d) Reality.

8. Stern seeks to describe the development of the infant's sense of __________ in this book.
(a) Other.
(b) Family.
(c) Self.
(d) World.

9. The nature of therapy will be best determined by which domain of __________ is most affected in the patient.
(a) Attunement.
(b) Emergence.
(c) Action.
(d) Experience.

10. _______ psychology can also aid in searching for causes when a diagnosis is already known, according to Stern.
(a) Pop.
(b) Self.
(c) Practice.
(d) Inner.

11. Cumulative interactive patterns, for example, may be the source of many extreme _________ disorders, though finding the cause might be impossible.
(a) Energy.
(b) Infant.
(c) Personality.
(d) Family.

12. Traditional theories are limited because they think of the phases of development as being ______-specific.
(a) Gender.
(b) Action.
(c) Environment.
(d) Age.

13. Infants have the same active regulatory _______ with the external world as does anyone at any age of development.
(a) Movement.
(b) Barriers.
(c) Activity.
(d) Traffic.

14. By considering new experimental findings, Stern can begin to infer the _________ experience of the sense of self.
(a) Objective.
(b) Attunement.
(c) Quantitive.
(d) Subjective.

15. The experience of the answer in #140 might be felt as the dissolution of the core sense of ________.
(a) Possibility.
(b) Anger.
(c) Health.
(d) Self.

Short Answer Questions

1. Stern states that affect attunement is a form of __________, rather than something else entirely.

2. Stern presents a notion of _______ sense of self which helps to develop a therapeutic metaphor because feelings can be turned into particulars which can then allow even closer analysis.

3. Children can begin to see themselves in a mirror, showing that they can now begin to see themselves ___________.

4. Therapists should focus more on looking for narrative points of __________ in patients than to look at specific development stages.

5. _________ of sense of self also help to identify a helpful narrative point of origin for the therapist when working with a client.

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