Chapter 5 Healthy Me – Normal Me Solutions

Maharashtra State Board Class 11 Psychology Solutions Chapter 5 Healthy Me – Normal Me

1A. Complete the following statements.

1B. State whether the following statements are True or False and justify your answer with reason.

1C. Identify the odd item from the following.

1D. Match the following.

Question (i).

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Question (ii).

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2. Answer the following questions in 35-40 words each.

Example: Anmol’s parents would always criticize them if he tried doing something new. As a result, he started feeling that he is good for nothing and developed low self-esteem.

3. Compare and contrast.

Question (i).
Realistic perception of self and Unrealistic perception of self
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Question (ii).
Openness to new experiences and Inhibitions/Fear of new experiences
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Question (iii).
High self-esteem and low self-esteem
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Question (iv).
Sympathy and Empathy
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For your understanding

Question (v).
Behavioural perspective and Humanistic perspective to abnormality
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4(i). What are the possible consequences of

Question (a).
Geeta is more interested in literature but being the only daughter of a well-established orthopaedic surgeon having his own hospital, she is under pressure of choosing medical profession as her career.
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Question (b).
Sujata is an intelligent girl but she is extremely sensitive to criticism and perceives herself as less competent.
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Question (c).
Trisha is not able to make friends. She cannot initiate conversation with strangers at all. She is placed as a leader of one of the teams for campus-cleaning.
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4(ii). What will you do if?

Question (a).
You see your best friend bullying your classmate.
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Question (b).
You see a girl in your class who is not included in many of the class room activities, who does not have any friend and who faces rejection from everyone.
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Question (c).
You got very less marks in the First Terminal exam.
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Question (d).
You are very much interested in taking part in a drama to be performed in the annual function of your college, but you are not selected.
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5. Write short notes in 50-60 words each.

For your understanding
Characteristics of maladjusted individuals: They get panic attacks, hesitate to meet new people, resist changes, are withdrawn, shy and self-conscious, throw tantrums, feel isolated, have poor relations and low self-esteem.

6. Case study

Read the following case carefully and answer the questions based upon that.

Pritha was a merit holder girl from a middle class family. She joined a college where majority of students were from a rich background. Although she was capable of following lectures and was doing well in her studies, she felt lonely as she could not get acceptance in the groups of her classmates coming from affluent families. She tried to dress like them, and started asking for extra pocket money from her parents. Her classmates joked at her dressing sense. She could not tolerate the mockery and stopped going to the college.

Instead, she started spending time visiting strange places like public parks, railway stations and shopping malls. She did not appear for any of her exams. Her parents were unaware of all these things and on asking about college or studies, Pritha answered them without revealing the truth. It the end of the year, her parents received her report card by post from her college with a remark that ‘Your ward has to take College Leaving certificate.

On confronting Pritha, she became violent and started damaging the furniture uttering bad words about the middle class people and there after her utterance was incomprehensible for her parents. This continued for a very long time.

7. Answer the following questions in 150-200 words.

Personal distress: Personal distress refers to subjective feeling of an individual in response to persons and events creating extreme discomfort. It includes feeling very low, depressed, facing problems like social withdrawal, e.g. A person feeling down and sad every day is considered abnormal.

Deviance: Behaviour against the set laws of the state or behaviours different than standard social and statistical patterns exhibited by most of the people, e.g. Deliberately engaging in behaviour which is harmful to self and others.

Failure to perform functions normally: Day-to-day functioning getting impaired, i.e. inability to fulfil appropriate and expected roles in family, social and work related situations, e.g. A person is not able to perform his daily chores and fulfil work commitments due to lethargy.

Activities

[Note: The answers of activities will be very subjective. The answers provided are for reference. Students are expected to perform these activities on their own.]

Activity 8 (Textbook Page No. 50)

Think about the following situations. Try and apply the criteria for abnormality that you came up with, to these cases and try to judge if they could be called abnormal.

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Activity 11 (Textbook Page No. 54)

You are all adolescents now. Think about how you are today and how you were in 5th/6th standard. Make two columns and note down the changes you see in these five domains: your self-image, your confidence, relationships with your parents, physical changes, and importance of friends in your life.
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