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Asked by: Abenaura Lejikov
medical health mental healthAre all psychological findings universal?
Also to know is, is Psychology a universal?
Psychologists generally associate “universal” with “biological” but there is no reason why that should be the case. Universals can also be cultural and they can have a history. This point is discussed in relation to globalization and the spread of Western psychology around the world.
Subsequently, question is, is Abnormal Psychology universal or culturally specific?
The basic premise of the universalist view is that psychiatric disorders and syndromes are universal and have core symptoms that cluster into universal syndromal patterns. Thus, the same internal disorder can be manifested differently in different cultures but the underlying psychopathology is the same across cultures.
When a behavior is shared among all people, we call it Universal. As human beings, we have these behaviors in common. Within a certain group, specific rules take hold. While eating is universal, the manner of eating is not. When the rules vary from one group to another, we call those behaviors Cultural.