Abnormality
- Created by: georgiasadler
- Created on: 25-02-15 18:27
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- ABNORMALIT-Y
- CLINICAL PSYCHOLOG-Y
- Main focus is abnormality
- Seeks to define what makes a behaviour abnormal
- Then to diagnose what the problem is so it can be treated
- About mental illness and abnormality
- DIFFICULT TO DEFINE
- Some behaviours may be more common
- Seen as normal in some places compared to others
- People have different opinions about what is normal
- Very difficult to be objective
- Where is the cut off point?
- Things change over time
- Homosexualit-y becoming more common and accepted
- Diagnosis needs to be consistent
- Some behaviours may be more common
- STATISTICAL INFREUENCY
- Focuses on 'rarity'
- Rare behaviour is abnormal
- Schizophrenia affects 1% of general population = rare = abnormal
- Rare behaviour is abnormal
- If few people show a behaviour, it is rare
- Most human traits can be distributed along a normal curve of distribution
- If outside standard deviations = abnormal
- Evaluation
- Objective & quantitative
- Cut off point
- Can get treatment if abnormal
- IQ test - male dominated
- 130+ is more desirable but still classed as abnormal
- Depression on increase
- Symptoms wouldn't show up
- no longer rare
- Symptoms wouldn't show up
- Cultural variation of how you measure IQ
- Need further tests
- Focuses on 'rarity'
- SOCIAL NORMS
- What seems abnormal, is abnormal
- People who behave in a socially deviant way are classed as abnormal
- Society has rules and unwritten rules (norms)
- If someone acts in a way that breaks the rules, we class it as abnormal
- Evaluation
- Need to consider time/history
- Mental illness changes over time
- Culture
- In some cultures, what we class as abnormal is seen as normal
- Context
- Ethical problem of labelling someone because they're differeng
- Simple definition
- Know what is normal in society so is easy to spot abnormality
- Very subjective
- Need to consider time/history
- CLINICAL PSYCHOLOG-Y
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