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7.2 Abnormal Behavior

Abnormal behavior is defined as deviations from societal norms, averages, and subjective discomfort, as well as the inability to function effectively. Causes include anxiety, faulty learning, blocked personal growth, unsatisfactory relationships, and pathological social conditions, with cultural context influencing perceptions of normalcy. Individuals may cope with frustration through neurosis, psychosis, or aggressive anti-social behavior, potentially leading to criminality.

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7.2 Abnormal Behavior

Abnormal behavior is defined as deviations from societal norms, averages, and subjective discomfort, as well as the inability to function effectively. Causes include anxiety, faulty learning, blocked personal growth, unsatisfactory relationships, and pathological social conditions, with cultural context influencing perceptions of normalcy. Individuals may cope with frustration through neurosis, psychosis, or aggressive anti-social behavior, potentially leading to criminality.

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ABNORMAL BEHAVIOR

 Anything that deviates from the standard norms of society.


 Anything that manifests something that is not common.
Abnormal Behavior may be defined as:
1. Deviation from the average(from the statistical form). It can
relate to size, shape, height, weight, and intelligence.
2. Deviation from the ideal(from social norms). Abnormality is
when one violates behaviors that are mostly considered proper.
3. Abnormality as a sense of subjective discomfort(personal
distress) -This is an abnormality in terms of the individual
subjective feelings of distress rather than the individual behavior.
4. Abnormality as the inability to function effectively (maladaptive
behavior). This views abnormality when people who are unable to
function effectively and adapt to the demands of society are
considered abnormal like an unemployed, homeless woman living
on the street might be considered unable to function effectively.
Causes of Abnormal Behavior
1. Anxiety (psychological perspective)
2. Faulty Learning (behavior perspective)
3. Blocked or distorted personal growth (humanistic perspective)
4. Unsatisfactory interpersonal relationship
5. Pathological social condition
*Normal and abnormal behaviors depend relatively on the culture
of people since a normal behavior to one society may not be
accepted or allowed to other societies or individuals.
When a person is frustrated in his attempts to adjust himself to
difficult situations over a long period of time, he may try to
escape from these conflicts by doing one of several things:
1. He may compromise with reality by developing imaginary
ailments, phobias, obsessions, or compulsions. This is known as
neurosis.
2. He may withdraw from the real world into the world of fantasy
and make-believe where his hidden or unexpressed desires can
be fulfilled. In this stage of mind, the person becomes psychotic.
3. Instead of compromising with reality or withdrawing into his
well-being, the person may go to the other extreme and may
become very aggressive and cruel in his behavior towards others.
He is then known as an anti-social personality or a psychopath or
sociopath, and when his anti-social behavior becomes in conflict
with the law, he becomes a criminal.

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