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An intense sexual attraction to either inanimate objects or to body parts not traditionally viewed as sexual, such as feet, when coupled with clinically significant distress or impairment, is ...
- Fatal Attraction
Essentially, fatal attraction occurs when the specific...
- Fatal Attraction
Nov 30, 2012 · Essentially, fatal attraction occurs when the specific behavior/feature that drew you to another person is the same behavior/feature that causes the two of you to break up.
- Statistical Infrequency
- Violation of Social Norms
- Failure to Function Adequately
- Deviation from Ideal Mental Health
- Ethnocentric
With this definition, it is necessary to be clear about how rare a trait or behavior needs to be before we class it as abnormal. For instance, one may say that an individual who has an IQ below or above the average level of IQ in society is abnormal.
Violation of social norms is a definition of abnormality where a person’s thinking or behavior is classified as abnormal if it violates the (unwritten) rules about what is expected or acceptable behavior in a particular social group. Their behavior may be incomprehensible to others or make others feel threatened or uncomfortable. Every culture has ...
They may be unable to perform the behaviors necessary for day-to-day living, e.g., self-care, holding down a job, interacting meaningfully with others, making themselves understood, etc. Rosenhan & Seligman (1989) suggest the following characteristics that define failure to function adequately: 1. Suffering 2. Maladaptiveness (danger to self) 3. Vi...
This means that rather than defining what is abnormal, psychologists define what normal/ideal mental health is, and anything that deviates from this is regarded as abnormal. This requires us to decide on the characteristics we consider necessary for mental health. Jahoda (1958) defined six criteria by which mental health could be measured: 1. A pos...
Ethnocentrism, in the context of psychology, refers to the tendency to view one’s own culture or ethnic group as the standard or norm, and to judge other cultures, values, behaviors, and beliefs based on those norms. I White, middle-class men devise most definitions of psychological abnormality. It has been suggested that this may lead to dispropor...
Mar 1, 2018 · Abnormal Attraction. In a world where mythical creatures are real, monsters and humans are forced to coexist; and as prejudice and insecurity pulls everyone apart, three separate storylines manage to come together.
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- Michael Leavy
- 2018-03-01
Define the concept of mere exposure, and explain how proximity influences liking. Explore the relationship between affect and attraction. When we say that we like or love someone, we are experiencing interpersonal attraction — the strength of our liking or loving for another person.
Abnormal psychology is the branch of psychology that studies unusual patterns of behavior, emotion, and thought, which could possibly be understood as a mental disorder. Although many behaviors could be considered as abnormal , this branch of psychology typically deals with behavior in a clinical context.
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Statistical infrequency (or statistical deviation as it is also known) uses statistics, to determine the difference between normal and abnormal behaviour. A behaviour is regarded as abnormal if it is statistically uncommon/unusual i.e. not present often or regularly per society for example:
