PSY344H5 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Psychopathy Checklist, Novelty Seeking, Psychopathy
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Type i psychopath is a natural predator; they see people in the world as sheep as they consider themselves a wolf or lion on the prey. They push for a higher status and cannot stand being seen as a lesser being (hysterical sense of worth) Psychopathy not a mental disorder but rather a behavior trait. You"re considered a psychopath if you score high on the psychopathy check list. Pysiosiopath this is a person who score high on the psychopathy check list but do so because of their environmental up brining. Retrospective forensic autopsy: analyzing someone from the past and their psychological intentions of war or life. Borderline personality disorder unable to change your personality to fit the norms of the situation. Trait: consistent patterns of thoughts, feelings or actions that distinguish people: assumption traits are table over time, assumptions traits are stable across situations. People differ on continuous variables or dimensions. Traits are used to understand and predict behavior.
