Violence Flashcards
Affective Violence
- intense ANS arousal
- subjective experience of emotion
- reactive and immediate violence
- internal or external threat
- goal is threat reduction
- rapid displacement of target
- time-limited behavior
- preceded by public posturing
- primarily emotional
- heightened and diffuse awareness
Predatory Violence
- minimal or no ANS
- no conscious emotion
- planned and purposeful
- no minimal threat
- many goals
- no target displacement
- no time limit to behavior
- preceded by private ritual
- primarily cognitive- conative
- focused awareness
Affective Terms
- emotional
- reactive
- impulsive
- defensive
- to protect
- a lot of vocalization
Predatory terms
- instrumental
- typically silent
Affective brain
less activity in the prefrontal cortex
Predatory brains
no statistical difference in pre frontal cortex from their brains and the normal brain
Neurochemistry
-dopamine has mixed effect on affective aggression
Sensory signals
different areas in the hypothalamus activated depending on the type of violence
-lateral hypothalamus for predatory
medial hypothalamus of affective
Psychophysiology
-heart rate deceleration
who engages in violence the most?
crazy people
psychopathy checklist
two factors four facets
interpersonal/affective
- lack of remorse or guilt
- shallow affect
- conning/manipulation
- pathological lying
- grandiose sense of self worth
- callous/lack of empathy
- failure to accept responsibility for own actions
- glibness/superficial charm
social deviancy
-need for stimulation/proneness to boredom
-parasitic lifestyle
-poor behavioral control
-early behavioral problems
-lack realistic long term goals
-impulsivity
-irresponsibility
-juvenile delinquency
-revocation of conditional release
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violence and psychopathy
- they commit more crimes
- violence does not decrease with age
- they are more aggressive in prison
- male rather than female
- stranger victims likely
- sexual sadists are typically psychopaths
- correlates with sadistic personality traits
- violence is predatory and affective
- relatively stable across psychopath’s adult life
