PSY 300 Lecture Notes - Lecture 9: Bernard Madoff, Prefrontal Cortex, Phineas Gage

• School: Ryerson University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSY 300
• Professor: William Huggon

Document Summary

Differing in abuse reflects in different types of psychopaths. Can be non-violent business type or violent criminal: wide variation, but, they all show: Little to no conscience: the psychopath, about 0. 6% of the population meets the criteria. Other half involved in criminality: w/i 2nd group includes criminal and violence psychopaths (serial killers, correlates with: Sees the problem, think of easiest/simplest way to solve. 4-9 times higher than that of the general population. Genpop is about 0. 6: high-functioning psychopaths, bernie madoff, who committed one of the largest financial frauds in history, not violent but a criminal; stole billions of dollars from investors over decades of ponzi. Scheme: causes of psychopathy, genetics, neuroanatomy, environment, all three must be present in creating a psychopath, depending on degree, different type of psychopath (violent criminal or businessman, genetics, callous-unemotional characteristics and antisocial behaviour have a hereditable component. Driven to receive more dopamine and serotonin: extreme abnormalities in this enzyme result in severe impulsive behavior.