Psychology Mental Health Defining Abnormality

Abnormailty as behaviour which deviates from social norms:

• Pschologists propose that behaviour is normally distributed.
• True? Then extremely different behaviour can be defined as 'abnormal'.
• A very low IQ is statistically abnormal just like a very high IQ, but it is desirable to have a high IQ.

Abnormality as behaviour which deviates from the social norm

• Some people behave in socially deviant ways.
• Their behaviour does not…