PSYC 2400 Study Guide - Antisocial Personality Disorder, Inter-Rater Reliability, Psychopathy
19 Feb 2014
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A personality disorder: arrogant, deceitful interpersonal style. Very manipulative- do whatever it takes to get what they want. Understand that they are inflicting pain, they just don"t care: deficient affective experiences (affect= how they experience emotions) Very sensation-seeking/risk takers: early onset & diverse antisocial behavior. Has to be a cluster of all these attributes, not just one or two. Descriptions of psychopathy exist in most cultures. Advantages: cost-effective, not time-consuming, measure emotions that cannot be observed, easy to administer, do not require inter-rater reliability, can detect faking (good and bad) Meant to detect if you are lying. Challenges: psychopaths lie, may not have sufficient insight, do not experience certain emotions. Pcl-r robert hare (how people classify psychopaths) Hare"s psychopathy checklist-revised (pcl-r: most popular method of assessing psychopathy in adults. Currently psychopathy is a 2 factor model: factor 1: interpersonal, affective traits (mood, factor 2: unstable and socially deviant traits (criminal behavior, acting.
