Essentials of Understanding Psychology
Essentials of Understanding Psychology
12th Edition
ISBN: 9781259531804
Author: Robert S Feldman Dean College of Social & Behavioral Sciences
Publisher: McGraw-Hill Education
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Chapter 37, Problem 3E
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To determine: The approach Person V’s mother used to define abnormal behavior when Person V decides to become a waitress, despite being offered admission to medical school.

Introduction: The behavior that causes an individual to experience distress and hinders them from their daily life functioning is called abnormal behavior. The psychologists have struggled to form a clear, scientific definition for abnormal behavior because of the difficulty to differentiate normal behavior from abnormal behavior.

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