Indivudal Difference - Hancock

Question 1

What is a a psychopath

Answer 1

Anti social personality disorder
Estimated one percent of the population is one
Not all violent killers
Will often meet criteria on checklist

Question 2

How are psychopaths often measured

Answer 2

Devised by Robert hare
Called psychopathy checklist been used over last 20 years
Each scored 0 to 2 for a maximum score on checklist of 40
Score above 30 is cut off point for clinical diagnostic
Has shown to have high validity and reliability

Question 3

Subordinating conjunction

Disfluencies

Language articles

Answer 3

Words or phrases that join together two clauses such as- although because even though

Fillers in spoken language e.g um or uh
Word such as the or a

Question 4

Maslows hierarchy of needs

Answer 4

A theory to outline human needs psychopaths tend to focuses on basic material needs nearer the bottom whereas higher needs such as relationships and self esteem are usually of little interest

Question 5

Specific aims

Answer 5

To analyse psychopaths language to see if …..
They focuses on lower needs of maslows hierarchy needs
Psychopaths tend to focus on on basic material need at bottom
They use fewer emotional words more than difluencies more articles and evidenc of psychological distancing which is shown through by using more past tense verbs

Question 6

General aim of Hancocks study

Answer 6

To investigate language differences between psychopathic murderers compared to non psychopathic murderers .

Question 7

Participants

Answer 7

Total of 52 male murderers from Canadian prisons volunteered to participate they had all admitted their crimes homicicide
Psychopaths 14 , mean age 39.71 years, mean time since crime not significantly difference 11.87
Non psychopaths - 38 , mean age 39.91 mean time - 9.82