Psychopathology - Definitions of abnormality

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  • Created by: michelle9
  • Created on: 16-11-19 19:38

1. Failure to function adequately defines abnormal behaviour as...

  • Behaviour that deviates from a set criterion of what is seen as normal psychological health
  • The inability to cope with the demands of everyday life
  • Behaviour that is rare in terms of how many times it occurs
  • Behaviour that deviates from how one is expected to behave based on the society's/ social group's agreed consensus of what the correct way to behave is
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2. Which of the following is not a weakness of failure to function adequately?

  • It is unrelistic
  • It limits free will E.g. choose to do extreme sports
  • It is a subjective scale

3. Which of the following is not a weakness of deviation from social norms?

  • It can lead to human rights abuses
  • It can't be used to diagnose APD
  • It is culturally relative

4. Jahoda put forward a criteria of what ideal mental health consists of

  • True
  • False

5. What is a strength of statistical infrequency?

  • Real life application in the diagnosis of IDD
  • It takes account of peoples situational circumstances
  • It has a criteria that is a good starting point for thinking about a range of psychological factors involved in mental health

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