SOCI - Sociology SOCI 4306 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Blood Test, Developmental Psychology, Developmental Psychopathology
22 Oct 2019
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LECTURE 2
WHAT IS ABNORMAL BEHAVIOR
• Trouble in characterizing Abnormality.
• In this period of fast innovative progression, you may think there would be some target test like a blood test
or a like a mind check that could decide if an individual is typical or anomalous?
• There is no such test accessible; anyway clinicians depend on signs, side effects, and emotional criteria for
choosing when the watched manifestations (signs) comprise variation from the norm. Four criteria for
characterizing irregularity have been proposed. They are regularly called the four D's, Deviance, Distress,
Dysfunction and Danger.
• Freak conduct implies diverse outrageous unordinary and unusual
• Misery alludes to terrible or upsetting conduct of an individual Dysfunctional or troublesome in a manner
that can wound up perilous also Danger of harming oneself as well as other people
Deviance:
a. Deviance from the Cultural Norms
b. Deviance from the Statistical Norms
c. Deviance from Cultural Norms
Each culture has certain gauges, standards and measuring sticks for satisfactory practices and conduct that strays or
varies extraordinarily from those standards is viewed as unusual. The adherents of Cultural Criteria point of view
contend that we should regard each culture.
2. Dysfunction
Abnormal behavior has a tendency to intrude with every day functioning. It so upsets, distracts or confuses its sufferers
that they cannot take care of themselves properly.
Example
A person quits his process, leaves his own family and prepares to withdraw from the productive and meaningful
existence with a purpose to live in an empty remoted distant condo in which he feels secure and glad. So this
dysfunctional conduct indicates mental abnormality.
A behavior is atypical if its maladaptive that is if it has adverse effects at the person or on Society. A guy who's
frightened of crowds that he cannot board within the bus to paintings.
3. Distress
The individuals’ subjective feelings of pain, tension, depression, agitation, disturbance in sleep, loss of appetite,
numerous aches and pains. Most individuals who are identified with a mental ailment sense absolutely depressing
even as they will seem regular to the observer.
4. Danger
Psychological dysfunctioning is behavior that turns into risky to oneself or others. A sample of functioning that is
marked by means of carelessness, bad judgment, hostility or misinterpretations can jeopardize one’s personal
wellbeing and that of many other human beings as properly.
• An individual might also appear to be endangering himself by way of being least bothered about his weight
loss plan and fitness and for others via his series of hands and guns.
• None of these four standards offer a best description of odd conduct, in most cases; all 4criteria are used in
diagnosing abnormality.
• All intellectual health professionals and public choose abnormality through sensible consideration of
What is Abnormal Behavior?
By what criteria do we distinguish bizarre behavior from regular behavior?
A. The content of conduct that reasons pain, appears weird, and is inefficient.
B. The context of the behavior where and while the man or woman does it.
With regard to content material, behavior is in all likelihood to be judged peculiar by means of society if it reasons
1. Discomfort
2. Appears weird or weird
3. Is dysfunctional (distracts, upsets)
• People will tolerate a considerable amount of discomfort even bizarreness in themselves and others if the
behavior isn't always so common or disruptive that it interferes with the demands of ordinary life.
• A success businessman become discovered to have lined all his clothes with newspapers to guard himself
towards dangerous radiation from alien’s spaceship.
• Every considered one of his workplace notion that this turned into bizarre conduct.
• The 2nd criteria used inside the realistic technique is context wherein and when the conduct takes place.
• In case you had been requested to go into a room and stare anybody who was attending a celebration or to
inform jokes at a funeral? You might hesitate.
• It is due to the fact you recognize that these moves could be in appropriate to the scenario and your behavior
could be classified as odd.
What is Normality?
• Normality is even greater tough to outline compared to Abnormality
• Normality refers to adjustment.
The trends or traits of properly adjusted people or mentally healthful individuals or psychologically properly adjusted
character is meditated by means of the followings:
1. Appropriate notion of truth.
a) Normal individuals are realistic in appraising their reactions, abilities, and in decoding in what is going on in
the world round them.
b) They do no longer misread what others say or so that they do now not overate or underestimate their talents.
c) They do no longer keep away from hard duties.
2. Ability to workout voluntary control over conduct.
