PSY 4105 Lecture 9: Lecture 9

• School: University of Ottawa
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSY 4105
• Professor: Maria Rogers

Document Summary

Conduct disorder: repetitive, persistent pattern of severe aggressive and antisocial acts that involve inflicting pain on others or interfering with rights of others, severe antisocial behaviours, may have co-occurring problems: adhd, academic deficiencies and poor peer relations. Dsm criteria: you have to have at least on criteria in each of the three categories, cruelty to animals, theft, limited prosocial emotions. Video: adolescent-onset type: doesn"t want speak, doesn"t follow curfew, claims he wasn"t the leader of the act, doesn"t show much emotion, shoplifting, no sympathy for what he has done, missing school, expelled, physical harm to animals. Prevalence: earlier age of onset and great severity for boys, more likely to be transient in girls than boys, more physical aggression in boys. Differences between shane and dima: different personalities, shane had better self-awareness, dima didn"t understand consequences as much, respond to treatment different, dima felt no remorse, language delays in dima.