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Psychopathology
Definitions of Abnormality
Statistical infrequency
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What is statistical infrequency?
An individual is mentally abnormal if their condition is very
rare
in the population
How is the rarity of behaviour judged?
Using statistics - the individuals behaviour is compared to the rest of the population
eg.
Normal distribution
curve