PSYC 410 Lecture Notes - Eugen Bleuler, Zeitgeber, Catatonia

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It is characterized by a failure to conform to standards of decency; repeated lying and stealing; a failure to sustain lasting, loving relationships; low tolerance of boredom; a complete lack of guilt. Psychopaths do not easily learn adaptive behaviour from experience and tend to continue getting in trouble throughout their lives. Possible causes: physiological causes and learning. Psychopaths show less reactivity in emotional situations and their speech tends to be emotionless and very monotone. As well, they have poor learning skills in avoiding aversive stimuli: genetic causes. These people often come from grossly disturbed families that contain alcoholics and other psychopaths: environmental causes parenting. Children whose parents ignore them or who leave them unsupervised for prolonged periods develop patterns of misconduct and delinquency: cognitive causes. Children who have conduct problems tend to view their environments differently from well-adjusted children. They perceive the world as hostile and interpret others" actions as aggressive and threatening.

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