The Authors Discuss the Violation of Cultural Norms Criterion As

question 116

Multiple Choice

The authors discuss the Violation of Cultural Norms criterion as:

• A) an essential and sufficient component in defining psychological abnormality
• B) a necessary but not sufficient component of defining abnormality
• C) a consideration that will often be relevant to defining abnormality
• D) distinct from considerations of psychological abnormality
• E) a distraction from considerations of abnormality

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Definitions:

Ethnicity

A social group that shares a common and distinctive culture, religion, language, or the like.

Ancestry

Refers to a person's family lineage or genealogical descent.

Descriptive Research

A method of investigation aimed at describing characteristics of a population or phenomenon, without influencing those characteristics.

Predicting

The process of making informed guesses about the future based on current information or past experience.