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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is NOT one of the three different qualities that can be matched in the process of affect attunement?
(a) Shape of behavior.
(b) Language.
(c) Timing.
(d) Intensity.

2. Experimenters have found that the attunement process often occurs beyond ___________, as found from speaking with and researching mothers.
(a) Affect.
(b) Awareness.
(c) Reason.
(d) Possibility.

3. What the infant enjoys and what reality is accepted arise together for the _________, not the latter after the former.
(a) Father.
(b) Mother.
(c) Infant.
(d) Adult.

4. Once a child's ________ year of life begins, their language skills improve and begin to be a part of their experience.
(a) Third.
(b) First.
(c) Fifth.
(d) Second.

5. Stern sees the sharing of ________ states as the most important and the most clinically observable aspect of intersubjective relatedness.
(a) Effective.
(b) Impact.
(c) Affective.
(d) Motor.

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

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

8. ________ affects are those affects which can be communicated through art and through behavior.
(a) Vitality.
(b) Method.
(c) Discrete.
(d) Discreet.

9. _________ in theories of developmental origin, according to Stern, should be maintained.
(a) Usefulness.
(b) Respect.
(c) Flexibility.
(d) Promise.

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

11. Sometimes equilibria form, but require a lot of ________ from others to maintain , according to Stern's findings.
(a) Support.
(b) Input.
(c) Energy.
(d) Criticism.

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

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

14. Just as ________ develop, according to Stern, so must the theories about what they experience and who they are.
(a) Therapists.
(b) Infants.
(c) Narratives.
(d) Adults.

15. The process of affect attunement is a bit of a mystery, though many have speculated that ________ is not enough to get the process off the ground.
(a) Imitation.
(b) Understanding.
(c) Speculation.
(d) Education.

Short Answer Questions

1. Infants must understand the idea of __________, or their execution of the act and the ability to change between the two realities.

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. __________ theory has also given intense emotional states an important organizing role, according to Stern's research.

4. The sense of a core self is built out of patterns of __________ which maintain themselves in an equilibrium that becomes a sense of self.

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

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