What is Abnormal Behavior

abnormal behavior

Psychological disorder

psychological disorder

psychological dysfunction of individual associates w/distressed or impairment in functioning and response > not typical or culturally expected

characteristics of psychological disorder

4 D's

Dysfunction, Distress,

Deviant, Dangerous

psychological dysfunction

breakdown in cognitive, emotional, or behavioral functioning

psychological dysfunction

• being happy in a situation that should not be caused of happiness

• being sad for no reason in particular

• being afraid of things that are relatively harmless

psychological distress or impairment

extremely upsets as an individual > it should be very extreme to be define as one criterion in abnormal behavior

distress or impairment and dysfunction

____ alone cannot be define as abnormal behavior but if it has ______ probability of having abnormal behavior is high

impairment

you are not able to function properly because of the symptoms

deviant or atypical or not culturally expected

a persons behavior or actions is not the usual, atypical, not culturally expected or deviance (kakaiba) > naiiba siya sa society

dangerous

if the symptoms brings danger to its self or other person > sign of psychological disorder

psychological dysfunction

ex: you had one sad moment experienced in your life, and its been a month and you still haven't moved on that its already interfering your everyday functioning as a human

psychological distress or impairment

ex: the case of judy can be an example: after watching a dissection and saw a lot of blood she associated this with everything and faints whenever she sees blood this behavior interfered her functioning one is her studies she started not attending her biology class

deviant or atypical or not culturally expected

ex: you are very different than others (the way you dress, political dissident) not typical for the eyes of the society

dangerous

ex: your different behavior harms yourself or other people like hurting someone physically or the person itself

issues defining the abnormal

most of human have some behavior that falls into one or two of the categories

• we need systematic study of abnormal behaviors