The Main Concern of Abnormal Psychology

Patients with nerve disorders experience functional difficulties, which result in conditions such as:

• Epilepsy, in which abnormal electrical discharges from brain cells cause seizures
• Parkinson...

An easy way to understand the term is through the opposite of normal - which is "pathological" or abnormal.

There are four different criteria for defining abnormality:

• Statistic approach. It is based on the idea that norm...

It's present when we tend to overestimate the length or intensity of happiness that major events will create. The Impact Bias is one example of affective forecasting, which is a social psychology phenomenon that refers to our generally terrible ability as humans to predict our future emoti...