PSY341H1 Chapter Notes - Chapter 1: Developmental Psychopathology, Mental Health, Developmental Psychology
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Criteria for abnormality is very based n how people behave and what people say. Some are more obvious for example, if a person doesn"t acquire speech. Some instances are hard to judge what is normal and what is not. Behaviours judged as abnormal on atypical, harmful, inappropriate. Standards for behaviour based on development, culture, gender, and situational norms. Can reside within the person an interferes with adaptation not being able to fit in with life circumstances. Can involve the person reaction to situation, a more environmental condition. If there is a long duration of an emotion (anxiety) or too little of something, or if a child goes from being very outgoing to very solitary (a quantitative difference). Behaviour not seen at all in a normal growth period can point to (qualitative difference) when a child is unresponsive to caregiver as an infant, which almost always happen, this can mean they are autistic.
