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Struggling with A-Level Psychology essays? These A*-standard psychopathology essay plans will help you structure your answers perfectly and secure top marks. Each plan is clear, concise, and packed with evaluation points, key studies, and critical analysis to impress examiners. Designed for maximum efficiency, these plans follow AQA mark schemes, ensuring you hit all assessment objectives. Plus, they are aesthetically laid out with neat formatting to make revision more engaging and effective.

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Dev from social norms
AO1

Any behaviour that violates the social norm
• implicit norms
• Generally accepted rules of behaviour in a given society
• E.G: dress code for different genders and ages , queueing in shop

• explicit norms
• Set down in law
• E.g; stealing + murdering




AO3

S: CLEAR
• clear way of defining abnormality
• Bulimia - deviation from social norms of eating behaviour
W: DEPENDS ON CONTEXT
W: HUMAN RIGHTS ABUSE
• historically - meten control Minority ethnic groups
W: CULTURALLY RELATIVE
W: ERA DEP

, Failure to function adeq
AO1

Abnormal participant unable to complete day-to-day tasks
• prevent person from carrying out the range of behaviours that society would expect from them

• unable to hold down job
• Normal thing for person of working age
• have conversations with others
ROSENHAN + SELIGMAN:
• Observe a discomfort
• May cause others to feel embarrassed upset or threatened
• disrupt social interactions and relationships

• unpredictable
• Does not fit situation
• Over enthusiastic over anxious

• irrational
• doesn't make sense to others
• Communicate with them in a reasonable way

• maladaptive
• Dysfunctional
• Prevent person from being able to adjust appropriately to situation

AO3

S: SUBJ EXP
• acknowledges patient is important
• Relates to individual experience
• More likely gain deep understanding of their ab
• Rather than trying to apply generalised theory
W: DEV FROM SOC NORMS
• discriminating
W: SUBJ JUDEGEMENTS
W: MAL DOES NOT ALWAYS MEAN ABNORMAL
• Gandhi

W: C + E
• may FFA due to psychopathology
• Some may be mentally ill as a result of not being able to function adequately
• Some people with psychopathologies function at a very high-level
• hold down jobs and have good relationship relationships

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