PS 272 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Repeated Measures Design, Mental Disorder, Bulimia Nervosa

• School: Quinnipiac University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PS 272
• Professor: Kirschner, Mark

Document Summary

Behavior that is different, unusual or deviant. Cultural inappropriateness: behavior seems at odd with cultural expectations, behavior itself and the context in which the behavior is displayed is important, cultural relativity. Different cultures may utilize different standards in the definition of abnormality. Judgment of normality will depend on the values and traditions of the culture in which he or she lives in. Ex: in africa some people who have abnormal behavior are appointment high priest because they speak to voices or whatever example he said in class: limitations. Something"s may just be considered criminal rather than abnormal. Behavior may be abnormal though they are not culturally inappropriate. Not every odd thing that a person does can be considered a mental. Psychological disability: can be seen as a continuum along which people vary. Most of us fall in the middle range with only mild-to-moderate handicaps.