WHAT YOU NEED TO KNOW. Definitions of Abnormality:
Statistical Infrequency, Deviation from Social Norms, Failure to Function Adequately, Deviation from Ideal Mental Health
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What are the four main categories of abnormal Behaviour?
Abnormal behavior is any behavior that deviates from what is considered normal. There are four general criteria that psychologists use to identify abnormal behavior:
violation of social norms, statistical rarity, personal distress, and maladaptive behavior
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What are the 6 models of abnormality?
- Biological (medical) model.
- Behavioral model.
- Cognitive model.
- Psychodynamic model.
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What are the criteria of abnormality?
Behaviour is considered to be abnormal when it is atypical or out of the ordinary, consists of undesirable behaviour,
and results in impairment in the individual’s functioning
. Abnormality in behaviour, is that in which is considered deviant from specific societal, cultural and ethical expectations.
What are the types of abnormality?
- Types. Numerical abnormalities. Trisomy. Monosomy and polyploidy. Translocations. Deletions. Insertions. Inversions.
- Common chromosomal abnormalities.
- Trisomy 21.
- Trisomy 18.
- Trisomy 13.
- Turner syndrome.
- Kleinefelter’s syndrome.
- Triple X.
What is the concept of abnormality?
Some definitions of abnormality
Abnormality has been defined in a number of ways, including:
Unusual behaviour that is different from the norm
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Behaviour that does not conform to social expectations or demands
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Statistical infrequency
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Failure to function adequately
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What are the classification of abnormal behavior?
There have also been different approaches in trying to classify mental disorders. Abnormal includes three different categories; they are
subnormal, supernormal and paranormal
. The science of abnormal psychology studies two types of behaviors: adaptive and maladaptive behaviors.
How do psychologists define abnormality?
Abnormality can be defined as
a deviation from ideal mental health
. This means that rather than defining what is abnormal, psychologists define what is normal/ideal mental health, and anything that deviates from this is regarded as abnormal.
How do you define abnormal behavior?
behavior that
is atypical or statistically uncommon within a particular culture
or that is maladaptive or detrimental to an individual or to those around that individual.
Why is abnormality so difficult to define?
Defining abnormality is difficult because
one has to establish that a behavior and/or phenomena is statistically rare, causes problems in living for
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Which three types of theories have been used to define abnormal behavior?
Historically, which three types of theories have been used to define abnormal behavior?
Biological, Supernatural, and Psychological
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What are the five perspectives of Abnormal Psychology?
The five major perspectives in psychology are
biological, psychodynamic, behavioral, cognitive and humanistic
. You may wonder why there are so many different psychology approaches and whether one approach is correct and others wrong.
What are the steps when diagnosing an abnormal behavior?
- Explain what it means to make a clinical diagnosis.
- Define syndrome.
- Clarify and exemplify what a classification system does.
- Identify the two most used classification systems.
- Outline the history of the DSM.
- Identify and explain the elements of a diagnosis.
What are the three major categories used to assess abnormal behavior in diagnosing a mental disorder?
PSYCHOLOGISTS AND OTHER mental health professionals use clinical interviews and a variety of other means to assess abnormal behavior, including
psychological testing, behavioral assessment, and physiological monitoring
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What are the major mental health disorders?
- There are many different mental disorders, with different presentations. …
- Mental disorders include: depression, bipolar disorder, schizophrenia and other psychoses, dementia, and developmental disorders including autism.
- There are effective strategies for preventing mental disorders such as depression.
What is abnormal psychology in simple terms?
Abnormal psychology is a branch of psychology that deals with
psychopathology and abnormal behavior
, often in a clinical context. The term covers a broad range of disorders, from depression to obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD) to personality disorders.
