abnormality

• Evaluate deviation from the ideal mental health 

  -: sets an unrealistic high standard for mental health

  -: basic in humanistic psychology-culturally biased- rejects western perspective

  +: more holistic approach- multip,e factors in diagnosis.
• List the categories of Janoda(1958) mental health criteria (deviation from ideal mental health)

  -positive attitude towards self 

  -self actualisation-feeling you have become the best you can be 

  -autonomy- having independance and self reliance.

  -resistance to stress

  -environmental mastery 

  -accurate perception of reality- without persoanl bias. 
• Evaluate the failure to function adequately 

  -: not functioning or deviating?

  -:subjective and based om clinicial opinion. 

  -: doesnt't account for psychopaths who can often function in society.

  +: realises individual experiences unlike DFSN and SI which account for rest of population.
• What did Rosenhan and Seligman suggest?

  categories people may come udner if they cannot function: unpredicitability, maladaptive behaviour, personal distress,irrationality, observer discomfort, violation of moral standards,unconventiality. 
• What is failure to function adequately? 

  a person who crosses the line between normal and abnomral and can no longer cope with demands of everyday life. 
• Evalaute deviance from social norms

  +: flexible regarding situation and age. 

  -: social norms can change over time(allows for age and situation dependant behaviour)

  -seen as punishing the individual who are trying to express themselves.

  -cultural relativism- what is considered adequate in one culture might not be in another.
• What is cultural relativism?

  principle regarding the beleifs, values and practices of a culture from the viewpoint of that culture itself.
• Give an example of deviation from social norms 

  anti-social personality disorder- a person with APD(psychopathy) is impulsive and aggressive.

  DSM-5 state that a symptom of this is an 'absence' of prosocial internal standards associated with failure to conform to lawful ethical behaviour. 
• What is considered deviation from social norms? 

  how groups of people choose to define behaviour as abnormal on the basis that it offends their sense of what is 'acceptable' or the norm. 
• Evaluate statistical abnormality

  +; objective way of measuring

  -: psychological community decides the cut off point for what is statistically rare enough to be defined as abnormal. 

  -: some conditions are common-depression and anxiety
• Give an example of statisitical infrequency

  IQ and intellectual disability disorder-below 70 or above 130 are seen as abnormal. 

  normal distrubition-the further above or below that average, the fewer people will attain that score.only 2% are below 70.
• What is statistical infrequency?

  -mathemetical approach of quantifying behaviour.
• Give 4 different definitions of abnormality 

  -statistical infrequency 

  -deviation from social norms

  -deviation from ideal mental health 

  -inability to function adequatel