Oxford Text pg 257-261

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abnormality

a deviation from social norms

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Rosenhan and Seligman (1989)

psychologists who defined abnormality as inadequate functioning

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degree of abnormality

(coined by Rosenhan and Seligman) how many criteria of abnormal behaviour are met

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Marie Jahoda (1958)

psychologist who defined abnormality as a deviation from ideal mental health (and came up with characteristics of ideal mental health)

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Flynn Effect

the average IQ in the world increases by about 3 points every ten years

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symptoms

the method of identifying abnormality in the medical model via recognizable patterns of behaviour

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classification systems

the basis of the medical model of abnormality

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