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Abnormal
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Behavior that is different, unusual, or deviant
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Maladjusted or Disturbed
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Behaviors cause distress or harm to themselves or to others
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Cultural Relativity
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The perspective that different cultures may utilize different standards in the definition of abnormality
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Subjective Distress
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Internal emotions or experiences that are real to the person but cannot be observed directly by other people; unhappiness, fear, apathy, physical aches and pains
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Mental disorders(def. according to DSM-IV)
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A. Present distress (ex. physical pain)B. DisabilityC. Significant increase in suffering, death, pain, etc.
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"Mental Disorder"
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Clinically significant behavioral or psychological syndrome or pattern
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Diagnostic Reliability
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Consistency and agreement between clinicians in use of a diagnostic label
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Normative or Epidemiological Research
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Descriptive information about abnormal behavior
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Interobserver Reliability
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The extent to which different observers agree on the way they categorize or quantify a given observation
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Construct
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Hypothetical or theoretical concepts that cannot be measured directly
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Construct Validity
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Refers to the validity of some specific way of measuring the hypothetical construct
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Correlational Research
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The investigator attempts to demonstrate an association or correlation between two or more measures
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Correlation Coefficient
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A measure of the direction and strength or relationship between variables
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