PSY 325 what is abnormal behavior Questions with
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criteria for determining normal vs clinically significant behavior Correct
Answer-Is unusual / infrequent
Is socially or culturally unacceptable
Causes a lot of discomfort or distress
Is maladaptive
Poses risk to self or other people
Abnormal behaviour is statistically rare
Problems: Correct Answer-Some abnormalities are common
There are many examples of uncommon or atypical behaviours or traits
that we do not label or diagnose as abnormal
There is a need to account for the sociocultural context in which a
behaviour is occurring.
Even if we could agree that statistically rare or unusual behaviours are
"Abnormal" we would need to decide a statistical cut off
consider... when diagnosing Correct Answer-- range of severity
- the cultural and year impact (norms change yearly)
- also contexts are important
, clinician must make a clinical decision whether or not one's behaviour is
Correct Answer-abnormal
what is the paradox of unusual infrequent criteria? Correct Answer-we
sometimes value statistically rare, weird abnormal or rare behvaiour
uncommon is not necessarily Correct Answer-pathological
some "abnormalities" are actually quite... and where is the cutoff of
statistical rarity is it... Correct Answer-common, 10%, 1%
can rare also be... Correct Answer-positive?
abnormal versus eccentric and gifted
paradox of criterion that the behvaiour is socially culturally
unacceptable: all of us operate in more than one Correct Answer-culture;
need to account for intersectionality
cultural relativism: the practice of judging a culture by its own standards
we also must consider time elements (norms change overtime)
correct answers
criteria for determining normal vs clinically significant behavior Correct
Answer-Is unusual / infrequent
Is socially or culturally unacceptable
Causes a lot of discomfort or distress
Is maladaptive
Poses risk to self or other people
Abnormal behaviour is statistically rare
Problems: Correct Answer-Some abnormalities are common
There are many examples of uncommon or atypical behaviours or traits
that we do not label or diagnose as abnormal
There is a need to account for the sociocultural context in which a
behaviour is occurring.
Even if we could agree that statistically rare or unusual behaviours are
"Abnormal" we would need to decide a statistical cut off
consider... when diagnosing Correct Answer-- range of severity
- the cultural and year impact (norms change yearly)
- also contexts are important
, clinician must make a clinical decision whether or not one's behaviour is
Correct Answer-abnormal
what is the paradox of unusual infrequent criteria? Correct Answer-we
sometimes value statistically rare, weird abnormal or rare behvaiour
uncommon is not necessarily Correct Answer-pathological
some "abnormalities" are actually quite... and where is the cutoff of
statistical rarity is it... Correct Answer-common, 10%, 1%
can rare also be... Correct Answer-positive?
abnormal versus eccentric and gifted
paradox of criterion that the behvaiour is socially culturally
unacceptable: all of us operate in more than one Correct Answer-culture;
need to account for intersectionality
cultural relativism: the practice of judging a culture by its own standards
we also must consider time elements (norms change overtime)
