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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. Stern believes the _______ to have intersubjectivity is something that must develop as a result of maturation.
(a) Possibility.
(b) Power.
(c) Capacity.
(d) Emergence.

2. Constructionistic efforts are rooted in all of the following elements except ________.
(a) Accomodation.
(b) Association.
(c) Assimilation.
(d) Aspiration.

3. The physical self or _______, is experienced as coherent, willful, and a physical entity relying on interpersonal capacities.
(a) Platonic sense of self.
(b) Experiential sense of self.
(c) Sense of a subjective self.
(d) Residual sense of self.

4. The _________ of RIGs becomes a representation that is assigned a set of retrieval cues, according to the author.
(a) Activities.
(b) Representation.
(c) Adjustments.
(d) Movement.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. From birth to two months of age, the _____ is employed to relate diverse experiences, affects, perceptions and events.

2. According to the book, psychoanalysis is a _______ theory that is used to acquire information about patients.

3. Evidence is beginning to show that _________ can recognize the intersubjective stages in others as well.

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. This section describes the main objectives of the book and includes all of the following topics except ______.

Short Essay Questions

1. What does core-relatedness do for the infant as they are growing up in the world, according to the content of the book?

2. 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?

3. How does psychoanalysis define progressive reorganizations of infant psychology, according to the content of the book?

4. What does intersubjective relatedness involve deliberately in the study of infants, according to the content of the book?

5. What does Stern say is the definition of the clinical infant as will be described and used in parts of this book?

6. How do the experiences of being with another become active acts of integration, according to the content of the book?

7. What happens before a child begins to create a more social understanding of their world, according to Stern?

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

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

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

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