PSY344H5 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Antisocial Personality Disorder, Personality Disorder, Comorbidity
Document Summary
Antisocial personality disorder is different from psychopathy. socio and psychopaths are not the same thing. being a psychopath cannot be diagnosed it is not a disorder. Trait consistent pattern of thoughts, feelings and actions traits are stable overtime difference between behaviour tendencies temperament is a good predictor ( whom we may turn out. Behaviorally inhibited ( babies show emotions ) temperament doesn"t necessarily say what our personality would be ( depends on the environment l if a child goes through trauma expect change) Traits are stable if you are a conscientious person, then you are a conscientious student and a conscientious killer ( people are the same across situations) we have to change our personality to fit the context to be) Traits we all have the same traits everyone scores on the trait of psychopathy > 30 = highly psychopathic behaviour it really depends on how much of the trait we have.
