PSYC 100 Lecture Notes - Lecture 26: Dysfunctional Family, Malnutrition, Sensation Seeking

• School: McGill University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYC 100
• Professor: Jens C Pruessner

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It may also have an environmental component; there is a strong relationship between trauma and abuse and borderline disorder. The constant rejection made it difficult for children to regulate and understand emotional reactions to events. 1800, psychopath: someone who seems willing to take advantage of others and hurt them without concern or remorse. Checkly (1941): mask of sanity: psychopaths can be charming, rational on the outside and insincere, unsocial, incapable of love, lack insight and be shameless. 1980: dsm: antisocial personality disorder: marked by a lack of empathy or remorse, often hedonistic. Psychopaths are said to have an extreme form of this disorder. It appears in late adolescence and early adulthood and often improves around 40 (at least for those without psychopathic traits) Lykken (1957): psychopaths don"t become anxious when subjected to aversive stimuli. Genetic and environmental factors are important for apd, and genetic components are more important for psychopathy.