Chapter 8: Psychopaths - Terms Flashcards
The most rater-based popular method of assessing psychopathy in adults
Hare Psychopath Checklist-Revised (PCL-R)
2 self-report measures of psychopathic traits
Psychopathic Personality Inventory-Revised (PPI-R)
Self-Report Psychopathy Scale (SRP)
A personality disorder characterized by a history of behaviour in which the rights of others are violated
Antisocial personality disorder (APD)
A label used to describe a person whose psychopathic traits are assumed to be due to environmental factors
Sociopathy
The tendency for forensic experts to be biased toward the side (defence or prosecution) that hired them
Adversarial allegiance
People who are sexually aroused by fantasies, urges, or acts of inflicting pain, suffering, or humiliation on another person
Sexual sadism
Observer rating scale to assess psychopathic traits in children
Antisocial Process Screening Device (APSD)
Rating scale designed to measure psychopathic traits in adolescents
Hare Psychopathy Checklist: Youth Version (PCL:YV)
An intervention that focuses on increasing the parent-child relationship using positive reinforcements and teaching positive parenting strategies
Parent-Child Interaction Therapy
A theory that suggests psychopaths fail to use contextual cues that are peripheral to a dominant response set to modulate their behaviour
Response Modulation Deficit Theory
A task used in cognitive and linguistic experiments that measures how fast people classify stimuli as words or nonwords
Lexical-decision task
Part of the limbic centre of the brain, which regulates the expression of emotion and emotional memory
Amygdala
A personality disorder defined by a collection of interpersonal, affective, and behavioural characteristics, including manipulation, lack of remorse or empathy, impulsivity, and antisocial behaviours
Psychopathy
