NORMAL AND ABNORMAL

Normal and Abnormal

Normal and Abnormal

The study where psychologists study what is normal and abnormal is known as 'Abnormal Psychology'. It is an area of psychology that is focused on people who possess abnormal or odd characteristics compared to the people in the society that are defined as normal. Two of the ways in which psychologists defined normal and abnormal are through using statistical and social criteria.

Statistical Infrequency

According to this definition, a person's characteristics, behavior or thought process can be categorized as abnormal if the statistics prove them to be uncommon and strange. Before applying this definition, it is ...