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In statistics, a score that indicates the extent to which one deviates from the average for one’s age group on a test. Deviation scores are derived from raw scores using a simple statistical transformation.  

A measure of intelligence test performance based on a person’s standing relative to his or her age mates, intelligence quotient.  

A deviation of the partition between the nares that, when extreme, may interfere with nasal breathing. Abnormal shift in position of any wall-like part that separates two chambers, most often referring to the nasal cavity. Deviated nasal septum is a common condition, causing symptoms of obstructed nasal passages, sinusitis, recur rent infection, nosebleeds, and difficulty…

A social role that is substantially different from the majority, and often calls attention of members of the majority to the deviant role player, deviant behavior.  

Thinking sequences often found in psychotic behavior in which conclusions are drawn that are not logically compatible with the premises or evidence.  

Based on the way in which society labels alcoholism. When society labels excessive use of alcohol as a deviant behavior, the person is forced into playing a deviant role. The deviant behavior may be primary resulting in social norms that label a person as deviant; and secondary, which is the behavior resulting from being labeled…

Behavior that deviates markedly from the average or norm is usually pathological in nature as used in abnormal psychology. Any behavior considered to be grossly abnormal.  

Behavior that differs from a statistical norm. Sexual behaviour which is considered unusual. Variation from normal behavior beyond the limits acceptable to the majority of the conforming peer group; particularly (though not exclusively) applied to sexual habits. A variation from the accepted norm.  

In career planning, occupational choice represents an evolving sequence of individual decisions.  

Freudian theory that traces the development of personality through five psycho sexual stages: oral, anal, phallic, latency, and genital.