PSY 2301 Lecture Notes - Lecture 19: Psychopathy, Parole Board, Cold Hearted

• School: University of Ottawa
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSY 2301
• Professor: Andra Smith

Document Summary

Psychopaths recidivate 3-4x more than non-psychopaths following release from prison. successful psychopaths use the system and people to get what they want. Psychopaths have been shown to be more destructive after treatment. Some prisons don"t allow psychopaths in their groups. Affectively: labile emotions, no long lasting bonds to people or principles or goal, lack of empathy or guilt. Uses: assessing and diagnosing psychopathy for research and clinical purposes. Childhood, relationships, work experience, family history, criminal history, general view of life and people. Pseudopsychopath: describes the personalities of a subset of frontal lobe patients who lacked adult tact and restraint. In contrast to conventional, or developmental, psychopathy, in which psychopathic traits emerge in childhood and adolescence with no gross structural brain lesion, pseudopsychopathic behaviors arise following brain injury. Acquired psychopaths: psychopathy can be acquired through brain injury and nearly always presents with other obvious signs of brain damage.