PSYC 3020 Lecture Notes - Lecture 9: Psychopathy, Homicide, Conduct Disorder

• School: University of Guelph
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYC 3020
• Professor: Dan Yarmey

Document Summary

Chronical disturbance to an individual"s relations with self, others and their environment resulting in distress or failure to fulfill social roles and obligations. These individuals are pathologically dominant, egocentric, antagonistic, forceful, callous, deceitful and manipulation in interpersonal relationships. Emotionally: shallow, lack anxiety, empathy and emotional depth, lack genuine guilt or remorse. Cognitive deficits: overly suspicious, intolerant and inflexible, are often intelligent. Distorted sense of self, self-centered, perception of uniqueness/entitlement. Psychopathy is the best predictor of future violence. Males outnumber women 3 to 1 in diagnostic group. 1% of general population, 15-25% of prison population. Hare"s psychopathy checklist-revised (pcl-r) most popular method to assess psychopathy in adults. 20-item scale with semi-structured interview and review of file information. Goal is to evaluate the degree to which an individual displays the interpersonal, affective and behavioural features indicative of psychopathology. Scale ranges from 0-40, if >30 = psychopath. Factor 1: interpersonal and affective traits (i. e. selfishness, callousness and manipulation)