PSY 0010 Study Guide - Final Guide: Research Domain Criteria, Generalized Anxiety Disorder, Mental Disorder

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General conceptual understanding for each topic what, when, how, and most importantly, why. Infants acquire information about the world by sensing it and moving around within it: preoperational stage: 2-6 years. Children have a preliminary understanding of the physical world: concrete operational stage: 6-11 years. Children learn how various actions or operations can affect or transform concrete objects: formal operational stage: 11+ years. Joint attention: the ability to focus on what another is focused on: social referencing: the ability to use another person"s reactions as information about the world. Imitation: the tendency to do what another person does or is trying to do: styles of attachment (secure, avoidant, ambivalent and disorganized, secure attachment: when the caregiver leaves, secure infants may or may not be distressed. Intersex: a person born with both reproductive or sexual anatomy that doesn"t seem to fit the typical definitions of female or male.