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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 process of ___________ and separation is not stage-specific but is ongoing throughout a life, as the self/other barrier is always being negotiated.
(a) Learning.
(b) Individuation.
(c) Action.
(d) Movement.

2. Children also begin to acquire a capacity to engage in _________ play, or the process of imitating the actions of adults in their lives.
(a) Symbolic.
(b) Coloring.
(c) Maturing.
(d) Witness.

3. An infant's ability to tolerate stimulation or regulate arousal may be linked to _________ disorders later in life, according to Stern.
(a) Learning.
(b) Mania.
(c) Anxiety.
(d) Power.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Stern notes that it is likely that __________ implications of this metaphor will come about slowly and indirectly.

2. Self psychology, according to Stern, offers the most ________ value when it suggests search strategies that help construct life narratives.

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

4. What is NOT one of the three different qualities that can be matched in the process of affect attunement?

5. _____________ are forms of non-localized distresses and can cause ongoing functions required to maintain social states to fail.

Short Essay Questions

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

2. What does Stern believe about the capacities that tie diverse experiences of the social world together?

3. Why should the period of emergence of each sense of self be focused on when an infant is studied, according to the content of the book?

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

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

6. What does the quasi-imitation that happens between an infant and their mother produce?

7. What development has Stern's book sought to describe and to explore?

8. What does Stern see as being the most important and clinically observable aspect of intersubjective relatedness?

9. What does Stern recognize about his theory, which he admits at the end of the book?

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

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