Test 2

Question 1

what did Hare famously call psychopaths

Answer 1

intraspecies predators

Question 2

Who wrote “The Mark of Sanity”

Answer 2

Hervey Cleckley

Question 3

What is the most popular method of assessing psychopathy in adults

Answer 3

the PCL-R

the Hare Psychopathy Checklist - Revised

Question 4

The two most commonly used self-report scales for psychopathy

Answer 4

Psychopathic Personality Inventory-Revised

Self-Report Psychopathy Scale

Question 5

what happened in the Detecting Vulnerable Victims Study (Wheeler, Book, & Costelllo, 2009)

Answer 5

Males uni students rated videos of other uni students walking in a hallway to determine the ppls vulnerability. Students with higher Self Report Psychopathy scales scores were more accurate at detecting victim vulnerability

Question 6

what happened in the Faking Remorse, Book et al., 2015 study

Answer 6

males students who score high on Psychopathic Personality Revised described in lab, a time they should’ve felt remorseful but didn’t. Then other undergrads rated how genuine the males sounded. The higher the store tellers rated on factor 1 traits, the more genuine the fake stories were rated by others.

Question 7

what happened in the Defrauding a lotter by Paulhus, Williams, & Nathanson, 2002, study

Answer 7

students participated in a study where they had chance to win 100$. After study, all participants were sent an email that the experimenter lost who had been the winner, and to email him if it was you. Participants who had scored higher on the SRP were more likely to try to defraud the experimenter and claim they were the true winner

Question 8

what happened in the cheat on exams by Nathanson, Paulhus, & Williams, 2006 study

Answer 8

experiementers obtained computerized MP choice exam answers and seating plans from intro psych classes, Wanted to determine which personality traits were related to cheating.
4 % of students cheated, and psychopathic traits measured by SRP were the strongest predictors of the cheating

Question 9

what is antisocial personality disorder

Answer 9

a personality disorder where there is a history of behaviour in which the rights of others are violated

Question 10

what is sociopathy

Answer 10

a label used to describe a person whose psychopathic traits are assumed to be due to environmental factors

Question 11

differences between APD and psychopaths

Answer 11

APD has more emphasis on antisocial behaviorus than the PCL-R

about 80% of offenders have APD while only 10-25% of offenders and psychopaths

nearly all psychopathic offenders have APD, but not vice versa
APD features are not really related to the interpersonal or affective features of someone with psychopathy

Question 12

what is adversarial allegiance

Answer 12

a word that describes the tendency for forensic experts to be biased towards those that hired them

Question 13

what is the one type of offence that psychopaths do not tend to commit more often that another person? what about within this crime?

Answer 13

homicide
but within homicides, psychopaths engage more in cold-blooded homocides that nonpsychopaths (planned, and motivated by an external goal)

Question 14

what is the relationship between psychopaths, nonpsychopaths, and early prison release

Answer 14

psychopaths are released earlier than nonpsychopaths from prison, however, the psychopaths were less successful than nonpsychopaths once they were back in the world

Question 15

what kind of management style do psychopaths have

Answer 15

lassiez-faire
don’t provide guidance
don’t care
no positive leadership style

Question 16

what are some differences in the crimes, ppl committing the crimes, in psychopaths and non-psychopaths

Answer 16

psychopaths start committing crimes younger, persist committing crimes longterm engage in more violent crimes, a wider variety of violent crimes, and engage in more violence within institutions, and are more likely to be violent after release

Question 17

what is the one type of crime that psychopaths do not commit more often?

Answer 17

homocide

Question 18

who are psychopaths more likely to target for crimes?

Answer 18

strangers, for revenge or material possession

Question 19

offenders scoring higher on PCL-R factor 1 were more likely to detect what about ppl walking down a hallway

Answer 19

10 second video clips of undergraduate students
- some violently victimized in past, others not

• these offenders were more accurate at detecting victims vulnerability and used mannerism cues to rationalize their vulnerability ratings

Question 20

Hare et al. (2009) found what percent of psychopaths in the population

Answer 20

0.6%

scored a 13 or greater on PCL:SV

Question 21

are males or females more highly rated as psychopaths in the population?

Answer 21

males tend to score lower than males on the PCL:SL and other psychopathy measures

Question 22

what traits do psychopathic professionals have?

Answer 22

• less likely to be team players
• poor management skills
• poor performance appraisals
• creative
• strategic thinkers
• strong communication skills

all in comparison with non-psychopathic professionals

Question 23

Porter, Fairweather, et al (2000) found what about psychopaths and sexual offences

Answer 23

while psychopaths are more likely to commit violent offences, they are less likely to commit sexual offences

Question 24

in general offenders who commit what are considered the most psychopathic?
then what other offences in descending order?

Answer 24

sexual homicides
mixed sexual offences (sexually assault children and adults)
rapists
child molesters