Physcology

• deveation from social norms

  breaking the generally accepted rules of social behaviour/ breaking the law or breaking conventions of society for example physcopath is one because they dont conform to our moral standards
• failure to function adequately

  in terms of when a disorder inteferes with normal behaviour/ maintaining jobs and relationships/ rosenhan and seligman identified seven features of personal dysfunction: irrationally, maldaptive behaviour, observer discomfort, personal distress, unconventionally, unpredictability, and violation of moral standards
• deveation from ideal mental health

  list of criteria that states what is healthy/ jahoda said normality is a state of mental health/ culturally biased/ emphasies acheivments rather than failure/ several criteria to be met to have 'positive mental health'
• statistical infrequency

  behaviour that occurs rarely within the general population/ if someone scored low on an IQ test may be diagnosed with interlectual disability disorders/ this can also be critiszed in terms of cultural relativity/ depression is much more common in western countries than in asian cultures which means it won't be abnormal in western but it will be in asain
• DFSN

  strength- protection of society, soceity can intervene and go to correctt measures such as putting them into mental institutions weakness- cultural relativity