PSYB32H3 Chapter Notes - Chapter 1: Blood Sugar, Frontal Lobe, Lobotomy
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Definition of abnormality: psychological tests/assessments define (or alert psychologists that there might be something wrong) abnormality is when the person"s score is statistically infrequent. Somebody can be above the average (they can remember 20 numbers instead of 10) and not have to be treated for a memory issue. They are still statistically infrequent however: personal distress. Again, this is not a great definition. A condition may be abnormal but it may actually make a person feel better. (psychopathy: violation of norms. A violation of a norm may not always be considered a violation of norm so that this cannot be applied to abnormality forever: must threaten or make anxious whoever is observing the behaviour of the person. It might be considered weird but not actually threaten someone: disability/dysfunction. People can have an impairment but it doesn"t necessarily affect their normal activities. This is not a disability: unexpectedness the distress and disability of the behaviour are unexpected.
