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Describing And Evaluating The Four Main Approaches To Defining Abnormality
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James Fruen Describing And Evaluating The Four Main Approaches To Defining Abnormality. Describing The Statistical Approach. The statistical approach to defining abnormality analyses data collected from a population of people, and highlights rare and un-typical behaviour, which is then labelled abnormal. For a certain behaviour to be labelled 'normal' in a statistical point of view, it needs to be an average behaviour performed by the population in question. This is why labelling behaviours from culture to culture and place-to-place is very hard, as different places have different standards and morals to which you are expected to abide by. To statistically define a behaviour as 'abnormal', the percentage of people in a population exhibiting this particular behaviour must be 10% or less. Evaluating The Statistical Approach. One criticism of the statistical approach is that it overlooks the opposite behaviours to abnormal behaviours. E.g. being very unhappy or severely depressed is seen as being abnormal, but is being...
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