Definitions of abnormality
- Created by: sophie.cumberpatch
- Created on: 14-03-20 15:39
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- Definitions of abnormality
- Deviation from social norms
- Standards of acceptable behaviour, culture specific
- Deviation = undesirable and abnormal
- OCD = wash hands 50x a day
- Failure to function adaquately
- A person becomes unable to follow a everyday routine
- Rosenhan + Seligman = observer discomfort, unpredictability, irrationality, maladaptiveness (interferes with daily routine)
- Agoraphobia = unable to leave the house due to fear of open spaces = loses job
- A person becomes unable to follow a everyday routine
- Deviation from ideal mental health
- Positive defintion, deviation = abnormal
- Jahoda = in touch with feelings + identity, resistance to stress, self-actualisation (focused on future), autonomous individual, empathy, environmental mastery
- Statistical deviation
- Abnormal if rare
- Average IQ = 100, normal 85-115, 2% below 70 = intellectual disability disorder
- Deviation from social norms
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