nonnormative

"I've just never heard myself described as 'nonnormative,' that's all."

Nonnormative influences are unpredictable and not tied to a certain developmental time, personally or historically.

The responses were grouped into four categories: prosocial, antisocial, nonnormative, and neutral.

"Did you say 'nonnormative cognitive processes'?"

Contextualism as a paradigm is Baltes' idea that three systems of biological and environmental influence work together to influence development: age-graded, history-graded, and nonnormative influences.

"I was also interested in your intellect and reasoning capabilities," Lal went on, "as I have been attempting to model nonnormative cognitive processes such as yours."

Intense experiences were assessed through measuring the frequency and intensity of nonnormative transient subjective experiences of happiness/unhappiness that deviate from the SWB baseline throughout time.

This combination of disciplines would also be able to delineate the source and mechanisms associated with age-graded, history-graded, and nonnormative influences that one discipline, such as psychology, would find quite difficult to approach.

SWB consists of its baseline, which is the average of overall happiness/unhappiness, and transient deviations, which are measures of frequency and intensity of nonnormative transient experiences of happiness/unhappiness.

Concerning adolescent development, the age-graded influences would help to explain the similarities within a cohort, the history-graded influences would help to explain the differences between cohorts, and the nonnormative influences would explain the idiosyncrasies of each adolescents individual development.

To others, "a random sample is necessary for a case study," "case studies are nonnormative research that investigate a situation without prejudice," "where we could look at a limited number of cases that would represent the universe overall," and "a review of relevant conditions in a specific environment with no attempt to project to a larger universe."