Psychopathy

Question 1

______________________ Spells out in detail the criteria that a clinician would use to see if a person meets the criteria for any specific condition.

Answer 1

DSM-5

Question 2

_________________ is a cloud of personality characteristics that meets 80% of adult prison inmates.

Answer 2

Antisocial personality disorder

Question 3

Psychological assessments are based on a clinicians _________________.

Answer 3

Judgement

Question 4

The _______________________ for Antisocial Personality disorder is the disregard and violation of the rights of other people from early childhood, little guilt, untruthfulness, and risk-taking.

Answer 4

Pervasive Pattern

Question 5

What are some criteria for Antisocial Personality Disorder?

Answer 5

Repeatedly engaging in criminal acts, deceitfulness, impulsivity, irritability, reckless behaviours, irresponsibility, and lack of remorse.

Question 6

___ in ___ people meet the requirements for a psychopath, ___% being male.

Answer 6

1 in 200, 80%

Question 7

___-___% of adult offenders in prison meet the requirements for psychopathy.

Answer 7

10-25%

Question 8

From a _______________ lens, psychopaths display intelligence and charm and realtively no anxiety.

Answer 8

Positive

Question 9

From a ______________________ lens, psychopaths display a lack of remorse, and lying.

Answer 9

Emotional-interpersonal

Question 10

From a ______________________ lens, psychopaths display antisocial behavior, no life planning

Answer 10

Behavioural problems

Question 11

The two factors of the psychopathy achecklist-revised are ______________ and ______________.

Answer 11

Interpersonal affective and antisocial.

Question 12

A score of ___ on the PCL-R is the cutoff for psychopathy (e.g. 30 or more is determined a psychopath).

Answer 12

30

Question 13

The __________ facet of the PCL-R under the ___________ factor has the criteria of glibness, superficial charm, grandiose sense of self, pathlogical lying, and manipulation.

Answer 13

First, first

Question 14

The __________ facet of the PCL-R under the ___________ factor has the criteria of lack of remorse, shallowness, lack of empthy, and failure to accept responsibility of actions.

Answer 14

Second, first

Question 15

The __________ facet of the PCL-R under the ___________ factor has the criteria of need for stimulation, prone to boredom, lack of realistic long-term goals, impulsivity, and irresponsible.

Answer 15

Third, Second

Question 16

The __________ facet of the PCL-R under the ___________ factor has the criteria of poor behaviour controls, early behaviour problems, juvenile delinquency, etc.

Answer 16

Second, fourth

Question 17

The _____________ is a measurement tool that measures fearless dominance, self-centred impulsivity, and cold-heartedness (emotional deficits).

Answer 17

PPI-R

Question 18

The _________________ is a measurement tool that measures arrogance, deceitful interpersonal style, deficient affective experience, Impulsiveness, and irresponsibility

Answer 18

Three factor model

Question 19

The ______________ is a measurement tool that measures…

1. Boldness: fearlessness, dominance, lack of
   anxiety
2. Meanness: Callousness, manipulative,
   emotional detachment
3. Disinhibition**: Impulsivity, poor
   behavioural control, low frustration

Answer 19

Tri-PM (Triarchic model)

Question 20

What are the three measures of the Tri-PM (Triarchic model)?

Answer 20

Boldness, meanness, and disinhibition.

Question 21

The __________________ is the housing for things like planning, inhibiting behaviours, monitoring what we’re doing, and reasoning,

Answer 21

Prefrontal cortex

Question 22

In people with psychopathy, the prefrontal cortex is underdeveloped. True or false?

Answer 22

True

Question 23

In people with psychopathy the autonomic nervous system seems under aroused. True or false?

Answer 23

True

Question 24

People with psychopathy engage in _____________ activities so that their autonomic nervous system is at a comfortable level.

Answer 24

Thrill seeking

Question 25

Psychopaths have difficulty learning through __________________.

Answer 25

Punishment

Question 26

_________________ is the theory that when a person has psychopathy, their amygdala is not functioning.

Answer 26

Amygdala dysfunction theory

Question 27

An offender with psychopathy start their criminal career at a younger age. This has to do with __________________.

Answer 27

Age

Question 28

Psychopaths start their behaviours young and persist they longer in comparison to non-psychopathic offenders. This has to do with _________________.

Answer 28

Duration of criminal career.

Question 29

Psychopaths typically commit a wide variety of offences. This has to do with the __________________.

Answer 29

Variety of offences

Question 30

Violent offenders with psychopathy commit more violent offences than people with no psychopathy. True or false?

Answer 30

True

Question 31

People with high PCL-R scores have a low likelihood of a violent offence. True or false?

Answer 31

False. It’s very high.

Question 32

High PCL-R score offenders have a higher chance of reoffending within 5 years of being released. True or false?

Answer 32

True

Question 33

The victims of psychopathic offenders are usually _____________.

Answer 33

Strangers

Question 34

Psychopathic offender’s violence is _________________ (cold, calculated, planned out).

Answer 34

Instrumental

Question 35

Non-Psychopathic offender’s violence is ________________.

Answer 35

Emotional

Question 36

____________________ offenders as psychopaths affects how harshly jurors will punish the offender.

Answer 36

Labelling

Question 37

__________________ means that a party in a legal proceeding may create a bias that influences the expert’s thoughts, feelings, and behaviour in favour of the retaining or affiliated party.

Answer 37

Adversarial allegiance

Question 38

Factor 1 traits seem to stay the same as psychopaths age, and factor 2 traits don’t. True or false?

Answer 38

True

Question 39

_____________________ is looking at the same people as they get older.

Answer 39

Longitudinal study

Question 40

_____________________ is looking at people right now (e.g. psychopaths).

Answer 40

Cross-sectional study

Question 41

The focus of cognitive behavioural therapy is to _______________________.

Answer 41

Change thinking patterns

Question 42

The __________ change the psychopaths come out of therapy (CBT) with, the ___________ likely they are to be convicted for new crimes.

Answer 42

More, less

Question 43

Is Cognitive Behavioural Therapy effective?

Answer 43

Yes

Question 43

The key issue for psychopathic treatment is the _____________ of the treatment program.

Answer 43

Quality

Question 43

Effective treatment for psychopathy needs to focus on ___________________.

Answer 43

Thought patterns