Lecture 10 part 2 Flashcards
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Impact of psychopathic traits
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- Presence of others with psychopathic traits increases psychopathic traits in others
- Defendant having psychopathic traits increase chances of wanting to give the death penalty and decreases chances of wanting to give them rehabilitation
2
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Psychopathy motives for murder
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Psychopaths much more likely to engage in instrumental violence over reactive violence
3
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Psychopathy and general reoffending
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Higher the PCL-R scores, more likely to reoffend
4
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Treatment of psychopaths
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- Clinicians believe psychopaths are difficult to treat
- Treatment made psychopaths worse
- More likely to reoffend
5
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Psychopaths and violence
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- Small proportion of population but large proportion of crimes committed
- Start criminal careers younger
- Persist longer and greater variety of crime
- More violent crime
- More likely to reoffend
- Do not commit homocide more often than non psychopathic individuals
6
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Psychopaths in the community
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- Rare
- 5% of sample of coorporate professionals met the criteria for psychopathy
7
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Psychopaths and victims in relationships
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- Talked into being victims
- Lied to
- Economically, emotionally and psychologically abused
- Victims of multiple infidelities
- Isolated
- Children who were mistreated
8
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Psychopathy and sexual violence
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- Fewer sexual offences than non psychopathic people
- PCL-R scores correlated with number of prior offences and not prior sexual offences
- Child molesters have lowest psychopathic scores
9
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Psychopathy and treatment
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- Positive effect for non psychopaths
- Negative effect for psychopaths
- Psychopathic sex offenders showed positive gains
- High risk psychiatric patients with high PCL-R scores also had reduced reoffending rates with treatment
10
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Psychopathy in youth
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- Antisocial process screening device
- Hare psychopathy checklist: youth version
- Possiility of psychopathic characteristics in developing youth is a common feature
- Those with high PCL-YV scores begin criminal activity younger, engage in more violence, and are at greater risk when released
- May be more responsive to intervention
- Intensive treatment centers are twice as good as correctional centers
11
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Nature vs nurture in psychopathy
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- Increasing evidence to suggest genetic contribution to psychopathy
- Identical twins have similar psychopathy scores
12
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Predictor of psychopathy
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- Parent with criminal history
- Sons with uninvolved fathers
- Low family income
- Disrupted families
- Physical neglect
13
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Response modulation defecit theory
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- Psychopaths fail to use contextual cues that are peripheral to a dominant response set to modulate behaviour
- Do not pay attention to cues that would inhibit behaviour
- Fail to learn to avoid punishment
14
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Affective theory of psychopathy
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- Have deficit in experiencing certain emotions that guide prosocial behaviour and inhibit deviance
- Brain waves and response times to emotional and non emotional stinuli show little difference
- Psychopaths did not identify emotional words faster than neutral words
- Psychopaths’ startle-elicit blinks did not differ in magnitude across pleasant, unpleasant, and neutral slides
- Some suggest amygdala dysfunction, others suggest attention deficit to explain affective deficits
15
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Psychopathy and affect language
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Know only dictionary meaning of words
