PSYB32H3 Chapter Notes - Chapter 1: Psychology, Demonology, Strange Behaviour
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Normal curve (or bell-shaped curve) places the majority of people in the middle. Person considered normal if they do not deviate much from the average in a certain trait or behaviour pattern. Another characteristic to take into account is whether the behaviour violates social norms or threatens or makes anxious those observing the behaviour. Behaviour is abnormal if it causes great distress and torment in the person experiencing it. Disability: impairment in some important area of life. Distress and disability are considered abnormal when they are unexpected responses to environmental stimuli. Demonology: doctrine that an evil being, such as the devil, may dwell within a person and control his or her mind and body. Exorcism: casting out of evil spirits by ritualistic chanting or torture: took the form of elaborate rites of prayer, noisemaking, forving the afflicted to drink bad-tasting brews, and flogging and starvation.
