PSYC 300W Chapter Notes -Psychopathic Personality Inventory, Startle Response, Behavioural Sciences
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View criminal behaviour as correlate, rather than component of psychopathy : does the assessment and prediction have to be separated. Are there not many other assessments that are made to do the same thing: pcl-r item interview and review institutional record. Argued that there was no fluidity in the concepts. Discussing only factors leaves information unknown: the definition is a combination of a debate that was about the primacy of and relationshop btw two constructs that are consistently distinguished psychopathy and antisocial personality disorder. Emotiona detatchment rather than antisocial behaviour: critique that deviate from the original and omit key features which is inconsistent. Analogy pcl-r is not psychopathy any more than iq test is intelligence there is a type of test rather than the test: there is a confusion with the origins and creates differences within the model. Children who possess characteristics can grow up and not have them.