Pychopathy
8 important questions on Pychopathy
What is psychopathic trait?
What is the diffrence with antisocial disorder?
What are the genetic factors?
In the dopaminergic, glutamatergic and neuroendocrine pathways (contribute to neurocognitive function, information processing, and temperament)
Reduced volume of prefrontal cortex
Abnormal shape of the hippocampus and amygdala (underpin the impaired classic fear conditioning and stimulus-reinforcement learning in psychopathy)
Increased and reduced volume of the dorsal and the ventral striatrum (contribute to abnormal processing of reward and punishment information)
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How do we call this trait in children?
Personality traits
Characterized by low fear, high impulsivity, no concern with other people’s feelings, rule-breaking behaviours not accompanied by bad or guilty emotions, reduced psychophysiological responding to distressing and threatening stimuli
callous emotional traits we call it with children, they are the same as pychopathic traits.The main characteristics are that they do not experience certain emotions. Keep in mind when we talk about children we talk about callous emotional trait.
How does this trait show in crimnals?
Secondary psychopaths: Their crimes tend to be unplanned, and they think little of the consequences, more minor crimes, such as robbery
we have common idea that people high lvl pychopathic traits are crimnals this is not true. having a high lvl of these traits lead to become criminals. weve seen last week, when she explained the difference, especially people with high lvl pychpopathic traits have big roles in society. there is a high popssibility that they commit crimes, because they have these anti social behaviours.
How rasses psyhopathy?
tools and measures is different for adults and children. In this tabel you see them.These measures diffren who administrate these tools, like children might not be able to write or talk. In another case the parents that reply to the question of the child. Similar we have different tools and measures for adults. like self questionaires. Or we can have a interview. We have legal practitioners. In another cases the practitioners that has to do the interview and also we have different types of assessment. most used pychpathic checklist reversed and
Pychopathy personality inventory test
Self-report questionnaire
3 major scales: Self-Centered Impulsivity; Fearless Dominance, Coldheartness
Pychopathy personality inventory test
we have a self questionnair. the person can fill in the statements. there is a 4 point scale if behaviour is present or not. It is quite long 154 items. it is quite good questionnaire. because we have three measure scales are called self centred implusory, fearless dominance, coldhaertness.
What is the dark traid?
the dark triad:
narcissism
machivallinism
psychopathy
in the new dark tetrad is sadism added.
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