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A typical behaviour is hard to define as there is no normal behaviour and it is hard to define normal.
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Aileen Scott A typical behaviour A typical behaviour is hard to define as there is no normal behaviour and it is hard to define normal. However it can be defined as behaviour that is different from other people in some way. A criteria is used to by psychologists to determine those who show a typical behaviour and these include- -Behaviour, which is uncommon/infrequent -Behaviour, which is socially unacceptable -Evidence of distress -Maladaptive behaviour Categorising people is important as it can lead to misdiagnosis, which can have serious consequences. It can lead to a number of things including lowering of people's social class and in one example of David Tom a Chinese immigrant, spending thirty years in mental institutions. Today there are stricter rules with categorisation under the UK mental disorders section. There are many different perspectives of a typical behaviour. The first is the biological paradigm that states that mental disorders are caused by aberrant somatic or...
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