Normality

Question 1

What are the 6 types of normality Grob 1995

Answer 1

Socio cultural
Functional 
Historical
Situational 
Medial 
Statistical

Question 2

Which ones are context dependent

Answer 2

Socio cultural
Functional
Historical
Situational

Question 3

Which ones are maladaptive focus

Answer 3

Medical

Statistical

Question 4

What is socio cultural normality

Answer 4

Characteristic patterns of normal behaviour and beliefs

Question 5

What is cohort normality

Answer 5

What is normal for people who share similar life experiences

Question 6

What is cultural relativism

Answer 6

Theory that beliefs, customs and morality exist in relation to the particular culture from which they originate and are not absolute

• child rearing
• diet and nutrition
• living with chronic illness and disability
• caring
• reactions to adverse events
• consulting behaviour

Question 7

Strengths of socio cultural normality

Answer 7

Gain a broad understanding of laws and social norms for appropriate behaviour within a specific society

Question 8

Limitations of socio cultural normality

Answer 8

Not a universal agreement that one cultures beliefs are all cultures beliefs - in multicultural societies this can lead to conflict

Question 9

What is functional normality

Answer 9

People are considered normal if their thoughts feelings and or behaviour enable them to function - feed and clothe themselves in their everyday life. People who are upset, confused or distracted that they cannot care for themselves properly or work productively are considered abnormal

Question 10

Strengths of functional normality

Answer 10

Useful in assisting mental health professionals to identify people who are not coping with everyday life experiences

Question 11

Limitations of functional normality

Answer 11

Health professional have different views on what they consider to be effective and ineffective functioning within a society

Question 12

Historical normality

Answer 12

How norms have changed over time

Abortion and homosexuality views and laws

Question 13

Strengths of historical normality

Answer 13

Helpful in giving an over view on how attitudes and our understanding of thought feelings and behaviour change over time

Question 14

Limitations of social normality

Answer 14

Limited use is describing current normal / abnormal behaviours

Question 15

Situational normality

Answer 15

Normal behaviours change depending on our situation context in which the behaviour occurs

Question 16

Strengths of situational normality

Answer 16

Learn appropriate behaviour in a variety of settings - framework of how to behave so we will be accepted by others

Question 17

Limitations of situational normality

Answer 17

Can’t generalise what is normal from one situation to the other

Question 18

Medical normality

Answer 18

Where normal behaviour is expected, abnormality is crucial to establishing the sick role and can medicalise abnormal behaviour. Deviation from expected behaviours or attitudes results in diagnoses of mental illness
Abnormal behaviour therefore has an underlying cause - brain activity, structure - normal behaviour no illness requiring treatment

Question 19

Strength and limitation of medical normality

Answer 19

Provides a set of guidelines on which a diagnosis of abnormality is based - thereby providing a more objective unbiased interpretations of behaviours
Limitations
Mental illness may not be able to find a physiological cause of the abnormal patterns of thinking

Question 20

Statistical normality

Answer 20

Measure of central tendency - normal distribution the Bell shaped curve - birth weight birth weight sperm count, blood pressure height

Question 21

Strength and limitation of stat normality

Answer 21

Averages in development and performance provide us with a comparison for our own development and ability
Limit
Thoughts, feelings, interests, mental abilities, not person is aberrance, fine line where normality ends and abnormality begins

Question 22

Maintenance of norms

Answer 22

Ritual / routine
Mores - the essential or characteristics customs and conventions of society or community
Law

Question 23

Violating the norms

Answer 23

Ritual routine - failure to fulfill role obligations
Mores - responsding to auditory hallucinations in public
Laws - violence or threat against another person

Question 24

Changing norms

Answer 24

FGM/ cutting

Question 25

Can deviation from the norm be positive

Answer 25

Flexibility and progress
New flexibility of thinking
Evolutionary engine
Adaptive or maladaptive

Question 26

Social norms and conformity

Answer 26

Crutchfield defined conformity as yielding to group pressure
Pressure can real or imagined
Myers defined conformity as a change in behaviour as a result of real or imagined group pressure
Zimbardo - tendency for people to adopt the behaviour, attitudes and values of a reference group

Question 27

Perceived and actual norms

Answer 27

Perceptions of what is normal behaviour influence self concept to profound degree particularly in early adolescence
- drinking and sexual behaviour
Misperceived social norms challenge individuals to conform to their perception rather than actuality

Question 28

Types of maladaption

Answer 28

Self maladaption- self normal to society

Social maladaption - difference in society not adapting to new laws etc