PSY240H5 Chapter Notes - Chapter 1&2: Behaviorism, Drapetomania, Psychopathology
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Chapter 1: the study of abnormal psychology is the study of people who suffer mental, emotional and often physical pain as a result of some form of psychological or mental disorder, often referred to as psychopathology, the context or circumstances surrounding a behavior, influences whether a, different theories on what defines abnormality/abnormal behavior: behavior is viewed as abnormal, deviation from cultural or societal norms behaviors become defined as abnormal if they violate a culture"s gender roles (gender expectations, focus on the unusualness of the behavior, the discomfort of the person exhibiting the behavior, the presence of mental illness, and the maladaptiveness of the behavior, cultural relativism, this perspective holds that no universal standards or rules exist for labeling a behavior as abnormal but instead behaviors can be abnormal only relative to cultural norms, different definitions of abnormality are used across different cultures, e. g.
