P: Definitions Of Abnormality

Question 1

Four definitions of abnormality

Answer 1

Deviation from social norms
Failure to function adequately
Deviation from ideal mental health
Statistical infrequency

Question 2

Signs of failure to function

Answer 2

Vivid behaviour
Irrationality
Suffering

Violation of moral standards
Observer discomfort
Unpredictability
Maladaptiveness

Question 3

Criteria for ideal mental health
(Marie Jahoda)

Answer 3

No symptoms of distress
Rational accurate self perception
Realistic view of world
Cope with stress
Self esteem, lack guilt
Self actualisation (self achievement)

Question 4

Is it ever beneficial to deviate from social norms?

Answer 4

Yes- suffragette and homosexuality movements

Question 5

Is it always bad to be statistically infrequent?

Answer 5

No e.g. high IQ

Question 7

Categorised system for mental disorders

Answer 7

DSM (Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders)
First version published in 1952

-contained homosexuality as a mental disorder and was later removed in 1972

Question 8

Mental disorders classified into which groups

Answer 8

Depressive disorders
Anxiety disorders
Obsessive compulsive and related
Feeding/eating disorders

Question 9

Three groups of phobia

Answer 9

Specific phobia -object/thing
Social phobia -of social situation
Agoraphobia-being in public/outside