PSY240H5 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Comorbidity, Thomas Szasz, Prefrontal Cortex
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There is not normal/average behaviour that we don"t consider abnormal or. What is abnormal behaviour? pathological: there are behaviour that people don"t display, that we don"t consider abnormal or pathological. Abnormal behaviour is behaviour that deviates from the statistically normal (or average: 1 standard deviation: 66% of the population are within the norm (within normal parameter) In statistics, we use standard deviation but it is arbitrary. How we have strived to define abnormal behaviour is by using this statistical criteria: the way people behaviour in the outlier, is abnormal (not average) There are behaviours that don"t meet the norm, and don"t consider pathological (not on dsm) and something we don"t seek treatment. It disregards not average desirable behaviours: if you are above average when measuring iq, it is not on dsm (cid:0) gifted, 1 standard deviation below normal iq, (below 70-75 or below) is on dsm.
