PSYA02H3 Lecture Notes - Avoidant Personality Disorder, Psychopathy, Impulsivity
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A person is classified as having a personality disorder if their abnormalities of behaviour impair their social or occupational functioning. Maybe a more extreme version of ant-social personality disorder. Kind of like schizophrenics they don"t want to take their medication. However, the schizophrenics don"t want to take them due to the effects they will take them at one stage. Psychopaths refuse to even be treated because they like the way they are. Psychopaths are more dangerous to other people than they are to themselves. Psychopaths are often drawn to each other they validate each other"s mindset. Theory of mind all of us constantly creating mental models of the people we know. How you would react, think, in certain situations. Empathy feel what other people are feeling. They are excellent with theory of mind however, they can"t feel empathy. They can fake it but they can"t truly feel it. Shocked whenever wrong: they don"t learn from this.
