PSYC 2400 Lecture Notes - Lecture 9: Stroop Effect, Startle Response, Electrodermal Activity

• School: Carleton University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYC 2400
• Professor: Adelle Forth

Document Summary

Ted bundy: he is a psychopath. They"re all serial killers total [known] kills: 161. Ed gein (aka the mad butcher or buffalo bill) One of america"s most famous serial killers. Silence of the lambs killer is based on his character. Gein kidnapped his victims but also exhumed corpses from the local graveyard so that he could keep trophies from the bones and skin of these victims. Gein was first thought unfit for trial but after some time in a mental health facility he was tried in 1968 for the murder of bernice worden in which he received life imprisonment after being diagnosed with schizophrenia. Was responsible for at least 49 murders; possibly 60. Was a sociable child until he hit his head when he fell off a swing; from that point on he became aggressive, antisocial and often teased for being a retard .