PSY 2012 Chapter Notes - Chapter 11: Paranoid Personality Disorder, Antisocial Personality Disorder, Histrionic Personality Disorder
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Abnormal behavior is also referred to as psychopathology, which is any behavior, thoughts, r feeling that are considered deviant and violate society"s standards for behavior. What a given society considers normal and abnormal is quite arbitrary. What constitutes normal and abnormal behavior is not as clear and simple as many people tend to think. Humans display degrees of abnormality at various times or situations in their lives. The world can"t be divided into normal and abnormal people/ Intern"s syndrome those who undertake the study of psychopathology find themselves believing that they have some of the abnormal conditions. Various models have existed or been created to explain the etiology of abnormal behavior. Throughout most of human history, societies worldwide have thought that the reason individuals displayed abnormal behavior was because the individuals were possessed by evil spirits or that the individuals themselves actually had become demons or witches.
