Psychology 2032A/B Lecture Notes - Lecture 10: Homicide, Juvenile Delinquency, Twin

• School: Western University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: Psychology 2032A/B
• Professor: John Campbell

Document Summary

Psychopathy: a personality disorder defined by a collection of interpersonal, affective, and behavioural characteristics, including, manipulations, lack of remorse or empathy. Impulsivity: antisocial behaviours, descriptions of psychopathy exist in most cultures. Assessment: hare"s psychopathy checklist-revised, most popular method of assessing psychopathy in adults, 20-item scale, assessed interpersonal, affective and behavioural features. Factor 1 - interpersonal, affective traits: glibness/superficial charm, grandiose sense of self-worth, pathological liar, conning/manipulative, callousness; lack of empathy. Shallow affect (genuine emotion is short-lived and egocentric) Failure to accept responsibility for his or her own actions. Factor 2 - unstable and socially deviant traits: need for stimulation/proneness to boredom, parasitic lifestyle, like a parasite, moving from one host to another. Juvenile delinquency: poor behaviour control, early behaviour problems, revocation of conditional release. Scores range from 0-40: 30 or higher is a psychopath, currently psychopathy is a 2 factor model, factor 1: interpersonal, affective traits, factor 2: unstable and socially deviant traits.