Many students will define abnormal behavior as some behavior which is different than the way somebody is supposed to act. What criterion is being used by the students to establish abnormality??

a. ?violation of social norms
b. ?personal distress
c. ?not typical
d. ?level of impairment


ANSWER:
a

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