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Abnormal psych Week one Atypical or Not Culturally Expected The criterion that the response be atypical or not culturally expected is also insufficient to determine if a disorder is present by itself. At times, something is considered abnormal because it deviates from the average. The greater the deviation, the more abnormal it is. You might say that someone is abnormally short or abnormally tall, but this obviously isn’t a definition of disorder. Many people’s behavior is far from average, but we call them talented or eccentric, not disordered. For example, it’s not normal to wear a dress made out of meat, but when Lady Gaga wore this to an awards show, it only enhanced her celebrity. In most cases, the more productive you are in the eyes of society, the more eccentricities society will tolerate. There- fore, “deviating from the average” doesn’t work well as a definition for problematic abnormal behavior. Another view is that your behavior is disordered if you are violating social norms. This definition is useful in considering cultural differences in psychological disorders. For example, to enter a trance state and believe you are possessed reflects a psychological disorder in most Western cultures but not in many other societies, where the behavior is accepted and expected An example is provided by Robert Sapolsky (2002), a neuroscientist who worked closely with the Masai tribe in East Africa. One day, Sapolsky’s Masai friend Rhoda asked him to bring his jeep to the village where a woman had been acting aggressively and hearing voices. The woman had killed a goat with her

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