Chapter 11 Notes

Question 1

How many features did Harvey Clerkey attribute to psychopaths in “The Mark of Insanity”

Answer 1

16 features
- positive features
emotional-interpersonal features
- behavioural problems

Question 2

what is the PPI-R

Answer 2

Psychopathy Personality Inventory Revised

154 item inventory
8 content scales
2 validity scales

Question 3

what is the SRP

Answer 3

Self-report psychopathy scale
- 64-item questionnaire
assess psychopathic traits in community samples
4 factors
there is a short-form version

Question 4

What did Patrick, Fowles, and Kreugar (2009) develop?

Answer 4

the Triarchic model of psychopathy

- includes boldness, meanness, and disinhibition

Question 5

Why did Hare really start his career in forensic psychology

Answer 5

when he encountered a manipulative inmate when working as a prison psychologist

Question 6

Is there a bias in the scoring of PCL-R for certain populations?

Answer 6

Yes, aboriginal offenders typically score 3 points high than non-aboriginal offenders

Question 7

offenders with psychopathic traits who show ________ are more likely to engage in sexual reoffending

Answer 7

deviant sexual arousal

Question 8

___ % of psychopathic rapists were opportunists, compared to ___% of non psychopathic rapists

Answer 8

81% compared to 56%

Question 9

what did Oliver & Wong show about psychopathic offenders in 2006

Answer 9

psychopathic sex offenders who dropped out of treatment were more likely to reoffend

those who stayed in treatment showed positive gains

Question 10

What is the APSD (The antisocial process screening device)?

does it predict psychopathy?

Answer 10

assess precursors of psychopathic traits in children
- various questions to parents, teachers, and teens

• fairly stable across lifespan

Question 11

What is the Hare Psychopathy Checklist: Youth Version

Answer 11

measure of psychopathic traits and behaviours in male and female adolescents (12-18)

Question 12

best time to help ppl with psychopathic traits?

Answer 12

youth

Question 13

most time of change in traits in a person with psychopathic traits?

Answer 13

adolescents

Question 14

what is the Response Modulation Deficit Theory (Newman)

Answer 14

fail to use contextual cues that are peripheral to a dominant response set to modulate their behavior-If engaging in specific rewarded behavior, will not pay attention to other info that might inhibit their behavior (fail to learn to avoid punishment)

Question 15

Typical background of families of individuals with psychopathy (at ages 8-10)

Answer 15

• having a criminal parent
• being a son and having an uninvolved father
• having low family income
• coming from a disrupted family
• experiencing physical neglect

Question 16

PCL-R scores of ppl who had been abused as children

Answer 16

usually slightly higher compared to control

Question 17

explain theory: deficit in the experience of certain critical emotions

Answer 17

deficit in experience of certain critical emotions that guide prosocial behaviours and inhibit deviance

Question 18

boys with psychopathic traits are unable to recognize what in others

Answer 18

fearful vocal affect

Question 19

psychopath response to emotional vs neutral words?

Answer 19

no differences