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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. The book states that affect attunement might truly have something to do with a process of ____________, which many mothers appear to be able to do.
(a) Mind-reading.
(b) Active attunement.
(c) Sacred touch.
(d) Engagement.

2. Children between fifteen and eighteen months can also begin to perform deferred _____ where they repeat behaviors observed and thus they can acquire new skills.
(a) Imitation.
(b) Witnessing.
(c) Learning.
(d) Education.

3. The relationships that develop because of language create a new subjective _______ and domain of relatedness for the infant.
(a) Movement.
(b) Perspective.
(c) History.
(d) Objective.

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

5. Clinicians should keep _________ theory in the background when they practice, according to Stern.
(a) Practical.
(b) Attunement.
(c) Attachment.
(d) Development.

Short Answer Questions

1. Stern says that more __________ is needed since the ideas he presents in this book are merely hypotheses.

2. Infants have the same active regulatory _______ with the external world as does anyone at any age of development.

3. Few therapists, according to Stern, believe the idea of the ________ has any special significance in development.

4. What the infant enjoys and what reality is accepted arise together for the _________, not the latter after the former.

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

Short Essay Questions

1. What does it mean when the book says it is cross-modal and that it can cross sensory modalities?

2. Why might pathologies result in the study of the formation of self in the infant, according to Stern?

3. At what age do mothers add a new dimension of affect attunement when they are with their infants?

4. What sense is most sensitive during its formation, according to Stern in this book?

5. What does it seem about the levels of stimulation that an infant experiences in their life, according to the content of the book?

6. What happens when a child reaches their second year of living, according to the book?

7. What do most experienced clinicians do in terms of the development theory, according to the book?

8. Why does language cause a split in the experience of the self, according to the book?

9. What are the stages of development that Stern recommends foregoing in terms of analysis?

10. What does it mean when Stern describes the idea of deferred imitation in children?

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