PSY 300 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Psychopathy Checklist, Antisocial Personality Disorder, Histrionic Personality Disorder

• School: Ryerson University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSY 300
• Professor: William Huggon

Document Summary

Cleckley defines psychopath in (cid:883)94(cid:883) is very similar to today"s definition. They argued that cleckley"s social aspect of the definition was not sufficiently. Renamed in iii and iv as antisocial personality disorder- not a psychopath. apparent. Dsm definition greatly based on behaviour: orientation, such that he or she doe not adhere to societal rules but still may have a conscience of some sort. Based on personality traits and observable behaviour definitions and is the standard today (and what we call them). Instead of affective and interpersonal features which are very important to the description of the psychopath. The term sociopaths somewhat still applies to antisocial personality disorder. (are"s conceptualization of the psychopath is more in line with the original. We can think of the sociopath as an individual who has an (cid:498)anti-society(cid:499) Continuous variable - (are"s psychopathy checklist (cid:523)pcl(cid:524) Let"s make this clear right at the start.