Psychology 2032A/B Lecture Notes - Lecture 9: U.S. Air Force Aeronautical Rating, Insanity Defense, Twin

• School: Western University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: Psychology 2032A/B
• Professor: John Campbell

Document Summary

Lecture 9 - predators amongst us: understanding and. Psychopaths are isolated from other prisoners for the other prisoners benefit. Assessment: hare"s psychopathy checklist revised (pcl-r; hare, most popular method of assessing psychopathy in adults, 20 item scale. Semi structured interview and review of rile information: assesses interpersonal, affective and behavioural features. Factor 1: interpersonal, affective traits: glibness/superficial charm, grandiose sense of self-worth, pathological lying, conning/manipulative, callousness; lack of empathy. Shallow affect (genuine emotion is short-lived and egocentric) Failure to accept responsibility for his or her own actions. Factor 2: unstable and socially deviant traits: parasitic relationship: has relationships with many people. Antisocial personality disorder (apd: a personality disorder characterized by a history of behaviours in which the rights of others are violated, need to display 3 or more symptoms, deceitfulness. It is thought it (cid:271)e (cid:271)iologi(cid:272)al i(cid:374) (cid:374)ature, their (cid:271)rai(cid:374)s do(cid:374)"t (cid:449)ork the same: what"s influenced is how it will be manifested (whether or not they become criminal psychopaths)