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directions: read each example and decide if this behavior is abnormal. use the main aspects of the definition (deviant, distressful, and dysfunctional) as a guide to justify your answers. at the end, draw some conclusions about the difficulty and implications of such decisions.

1) feeling very nervous or scared when talking to someone

2) hiding under a desk because you think alien spaceships are landing

3) thinking about suicide

4) talking to yourself when no one is around

5) believing that someone can read your thoughts

6) intentionally running another car off the road for entertainment

7) manipulating others to like you

8) doing illegal drugs

Here's what I think. All of these statements are abnormal. alkaline number one feeling scared or nervous when talking to someone as this stressful because you are feeling anxiety. number two would be classified as dysfunctional because it's preventing you from functioning in a normal way. number three thinking about suicide is the stressful because it is causing you anxiety. number four talking to yourself when no one is there and I'm assuming acting like invisible people are answering you would be classified as dysfunctional because your brain is not functioning in a normal way. number five believing that someone can read your thoughts I would personally classified as delusional but in this case classified as dysfunctional because their brain is not functioning in a normal way. number 6 intentionally running someone off the road for your own entertainment that would be classified as deviant because it is a bad and frowned on behaviour in society. number 7 mini plating others to like you that would also be deviant because you were going on the offensive and has nothing to do with you it is a behavior that you are implementing to get others to like you. and finally number eight after much internal debate I've decided is classified as deviant because doing illegal drugs is a criminal times and deviant can also be defined as doing something when you know it is against the law.