CJS 101 Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: Monoamine Oxidase A, Personality Test, Narcissism
9 Dec 2020
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Individual differences in behavior and personality characteristics (study of the mind) All humans have natural drives and urges repressed in the unconscious. Freud referred to these pleasure-seeking drives as the id ***unconscious*** The id is restrained by moral and ethical codes known as the superego . Adults develop a rational part of their personality known as the ego . The ego mediates between the drives of the id and the restraints of the superego. The ego allows us to make rational decisions. Collectively and clinically, we refer to the study of abnormal personality types as psychopathology. Chief proponent today of psychopathy as a theory of criminal behavior. Hare is the author of both the original and revised psychopathy checklist (pcl-r) The pcl-r is the most widely used instrument for the measurement of the psychopathic personality. 0-40 is the scoring rank for the pcl-r. Outer fa ade of normalcy- convincing mask of sanity .
