PSYC 3082 Chapter : CH1-2
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It depends. the most powerful phrase in psychology. Test q what is abnormal psychology: the field devoted to the scientific study of abnormal behavior to describe, predict, explain, and change abnormal patterns of functioning. Prediction gives you a chance to position yourself to be in control. Paranoia, if it is the lowest on the scale, that"s the biggest problem, paranoid people are smart enough to know the questions that are related to paranoia during the exam, they avoid the qs. What you do, what you think, what you feel. Sagging pants would have been deviant 50 years ago but now it is normal and accepted. What is normal changes too, about 30 year lag behind what is happening. Distress usually is but can"t be a necessary or sufficient condition before being labeled abnormal. System ripe for abuse and rife of abuse: psychologists with doctor to write scripts, keep the system going, keep the money flowing.
