Individual Differences

Abnormality

Defining psychological abnormality.

Definitions of abnormality: Statistical infrequency, deviation from
social norms, failure to function adequately, and deviation from ideal
mental health.

Limitations associated with these definitions of psychological abnormality (e.g. cultural relativism).

Biological and psychological models of abnormality.

Assumptions made by biological (medical) and psychological
(including psychodynamic, behavioural and cognitive) models of
abnormality in relation to the causes of abnormality.

Critical issue: eating disorders.

The clinical characteristics of anorexia nervosa and bulimia nervosa.
Explanations of these eating disorders in terms of biological and
psychological models of abnormality, including research studies on
which these explanations are based.

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