L09: Normality Flashcards
What is the definition of normal behaviour
Patterns of though, feeling or behave that conform to a usual, typical or expected standard of behaviour
How many types of normality have been described
6
What are the 2 categories that the 6 types of normality fit into
Context dependent
Maladaptive focus
What are the 6 types of normality
Socio-cultural Functional Historical Situational Medical Statistical
What are the types of normality that fit into context dependent
Socio-cultural
Functional
Historical
Situational
What are the types of normality that fit into the maladaptive focus category
Medical
Statistical
What is socio-cultural normality about
A behaviour that is normal within someone’s society and social group
Things we say and do everyday
What is cohort normality
What is normal for people that share the similar life experiences
What is functional normality about
The ability to function normal in given roles e.g doctor or parent. People are normal if they can:
- think
- feel
- behave
What is functional normality also about
Changing and adapting to needs as they arise
What is historical normality about
How things have changed e.g things that were normal in the past are not normal now e.g smoking
What is situational normality about
Normal behaviour is constructed according to the environment
Give an example of situational normality
Wearing a fancy dress to a party but not to work
What is medical normality about
What is expected and not normal in terms of conditions, systems, beliefs and attributions
What does a deviation from expected behaviour in medical normality result in
Diagnoses of mental illness
What is statistical normality about
The expression of mathematical normal e.g median, mode and mean
Give same examples of statistical normality we use in medical practise
Birth weight Sperm count Serum cholesterol BP Height
What are the 3 ways in which we maintain norms
Ritual/routine
Mores
Laws
What is mores
Customs of a society or community seen as appropriate behaviour in a particular environment
What is ritual/routine
Things we do on a normal basis
What is law
Legal framework that regulates which is acceptable or not
How can we violate ritual/routine
Failing to fulfil role obligation
How can we violate mores
Respond to auditory hallucinations in public area
How can we violate law
Violence or threat against another person
Give an example how norms have been changed
Smoking in pubic areas has been restricted
Can deviation from a normal be seen as positive
Yes
What is the definition of conformity by crutch field
Yielding to a group pressure (real or imagined pressure)
What has Myers defined conformity as
A change in behaviour as a result of real or imagined group pressure
What has Zimbardo defined conformity as
Tendency to adopt behaviour, attitudes or values of a reference group (people you hang around with)
What is private conformity
Social influence that lead to private conformity where we change our thoughts and behaviour even in the absence of group members
What is informational influence
Acceptance of evidence about reality which has been provided by others
What is normative influence
Conformity based on ones desire to fulfil others expectations and gain acceptance
What is public conformity
You don’t change your actual opining but change your opinion superficially to fit into that situation
What is perceived norm
What we see we think as Normal
What can misperceives social norms do
Challenge a person to see its a not a reality
What is maladaptive behaviour
Behaviour that negatively impacts daily life and activities
Examples of maladaptive behaviour
Avoidance
Social anxiety
What is the definition of abnormality
A combination of : personal distress psychological dysfunction deviance form social normal dangerous to self and other costliness to society
