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AP Psychology 2.3 Abnormal Behavior. A person's thoughts and behaviors might be deemed abnormal if they what?

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Thank you We sneak and here's your shmoop too sure

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brought to you by abnormal thoughts and behaviors like hating

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puppies or chocolate or sunsets All right well if this

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is you a pause this video and take a moment

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to reconsider Now basically everything all right Well here's today's

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question a person's thoughts and behaviour might be deemed abnormal

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if they what And here are potential answers shmoop Well

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we all have thoughts and behaviours that are slightly different

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from the norm For instance you might need to check

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that the door to your house is locked three times

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before you leave Or maybe your heart doesn't swell every

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time you see a puppy with little tail wagging Well

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however a person's thoughts and behaviours must meet certain criteria

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before they can be deemed abnormal The criteria include being

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maladaptive that's a behavior that does not provide appropriate adjustment

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to the environment or situation For instance an adaptive behavior

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would be taking your puppy on a sunset walk so

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you can feel true joy A maladaptive behavior would be

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ignoring this sweet little guy when he asked for belly

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rubs that would be entirely absurd and therefore inappropriate for

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this situation the second criteria is that it needs to

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be seen as uncommon That is the thought or behavior

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should be deemed an unusual occurrence within the general population

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and seeing his two thirds of american households have at

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least one head well this one's given fiercely who wouldn't

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want to spend time with this little dude Lastly the

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thought our behavior needs to be classified as irrational In

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other words it has to not make sense or not

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be brought on by an obvious case Okay just look

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at this face Just try and tell us that resisting

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this would be rational Nope can't irrational indeed bearing these

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three criterion mind we can see the both a b

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and c all fit meaning is the answer we're looking

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for and no an actual quote Clinical psychologist unquote would

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probably not qualify A disdain for puppies is being technically

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abnormal but thankfully we're not one of those So we're 00:02:01.672 --> [endTime] free to say you're a weirdo

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