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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Clinical and parental view tend to converge in believing the child has an active subjective life including ______.
(a) Lack of participation in the environment.
(b) Changing emotions.
(c) Changing vision.
(d) Changing objective experiences.

2. In Chapter Two, Stern makes a distinction between the _______ infant and the observed infant.
(a) Clinical.
(b) Large.
(c) Small.
(d) Subjective.

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

4. Each of the separate emotions of an infant are assigned invariant self-_________ to associate with it.
(a) Stories.
(b) Truths.
(c) Events.
(d) Myths.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. The domain of intersubjective relatedness arises from something called _______ attunement, according to Stern.

2. During the sense of a core self stage, the infant has a more wholly integrated mode of _______.

3. The ________, however, needs a sense of self-coherence in order to make sense of the senses of self-agency.

4. Although this stage is secondary, the development of the self is thought to _______.

5. The observed infant consists of the ________ that the infant demonstrates while under observation.

Short Essay Questions

1. What are the three main questions the author seeks to explore and to answer within this book?

2. What does Stern believe is part of the reason for infants responding to parental behavior, according to the content of the book?

3. How can a person begin to understand the experience of the social self, according to Stern?

4. What does infant research note about the capability of the infant who is between two and three months?

5. What is the goal of the book in its exploration of the subjective life of infants, according to the content of the book?

6. What are parts of the subjective experience in the Self with Other, according to Stern?

7. What do caregivers of an infant do as a result of the infant seeing others as self-regulating, according to the content of the book?

8. What are some of the many forms of what might be called the self, according to this book?

9. What are some of the developmental markers that will show up in an infant who is around eight weeks?

10. What happens when an infant gains a sense of core self for herself and for others?

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