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How Do Personality Styles Develop Flashcards

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What are common characteristics between these three personality styles?

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Superficially charming, 
glib manipulators, 
prepared to harm others directly via aggression, 
or indirectly via exploitation of others
Lack empathy
Hostile in their world view
Lack trust
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What is the dark triad

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Narcissism, Machiavellianism and Psychopathy

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What is the mask for the narcissist?

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The mask of grandiosity

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What is the mask of the Machiavellian?

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Mask of cynicism

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What sort of mask does the psychopath wear?

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Mask of sanity

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Who was the main person behind defining the narcissist?

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Dr Sigmund Freud

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What are characteristics of a narcissist?

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Fantasies of success, power, beauty, talent, brilliance
Feels privileged and entitled- needs preferential treatment
Has exaggerated sense of self importance
Seems to treat others primarily as an audience to witness brilliance
Center of attention
Expects self to be perfect
Tends to be arrogant, haughty or dismissive
Fantasies about finding ideal perfect love
Tends to think others are envious of them
Feels envious
Competitive
Should associate with high powered people
Lacks close friendships
Tends to feel false

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What is overt narcissism?

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Experiencing a grandiose sense of self, tending to demand others attention and are socially charming even though they are relatively oblivious to others needs

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What is covert narcissim?

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Feeling profoundly inferior to others, are hypersensitive to others evaluations and are generally dissatisfied

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Who studied psychopathy

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Dr Hervey Cleckley

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What are characteristics of a psychopath

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Deceitful 
Takes advantage of others 
No remorse for harm or injury to others
Angry or hostile 
Acts impulsively 
Manipulates others
Unreliable and irresponsible 
Unconcerned with consequences
Tends to be reckless
Tends to abuse alcohol
Blames others
Power struggles
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What is the checklist for psychopathy

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Hares checklist

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What is the difference between antisocial personality disorder?

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Three or more of the following required
1- failure to conform to social norms with respect to lawful behaviours
2- deceitful ness 
3- impulsivity or failure to plan ahead
4-irritability and aggression 
5- reckless regard for safety of self or others
6- consistent irresponsibility 
7-lack of remorse
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What approach do you use to diagnose psychopathy?

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A personality approach

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What is factor one personality?

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The personality level interpersonal or affective dimension of callous unemotionality

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What is factor two psychopathy

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Linked to impulsivity and poor behavioural control

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What is hot empathy?

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Can be transmitted wordlessly between people

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Why do psychopaths lack empathy?

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Early deficiencies in the functioning of the amygdala lead to

Reduced ability to discern another’s fear or distress in their face or voice

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How does the distress of others affect those high in psychopathy?

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Those high on the CU scale are slower to react to visible signs of distress

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When viewing an adversity stimuli, how do viewers normally react?

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Attention–> startle

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What was the result of those who had high CU in relation to their startle patterns?

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They had the most deviant startle patterns

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What is a narcissist?

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Having a disproportionate degree of self concern
They are thin skinned and rageful in response to criticism
Inability to see other as whole other in their own right

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What are 3 possible theoretical explanations to narcissists?

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Social learning theory overvaluation
The false self
Self-other distinctions unable

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What is the theory of the mind?

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The recognition that others have beliefs, desires and intentions like oneself but that they are not oneself .

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What is the theory of love?

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Love entails recognition of the separateness of another and concern for the other

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How does grandiosity illusions in narcissists arise?

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Developmentally as a result of mixed parental messages
Overvaluation (Millon)
Rejection (kohut)
Predisposition to aggression
Ambivalently loved for skills, for what you can give the parents, not for who you are.

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What is a vicarious emotion

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Arousing within oneself on behalf of another

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What is the correlation between Machiavellians and trust?

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They are hostile distrusters

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What features of the Machiavellian personality develop first?

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Lack of positive experiences with parents equate with loss of trust in those powerful others that one has to depend upon

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What is the correlation between Machiavellian personalities and parenting?

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Rejection and lack of loving experiences result in more increased Machiavellian behaviours

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What is the cool syndrome

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Blunted emotional experience, lack of mutuality of emotional experience which contributes to a basic sense of mistrust in others

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What are the advantages of the cool syndrome?

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Would make one a good deceiver and exploiter

Reduced affective expressivity would advantage one in deception

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What is reduced empathic reasoning?

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The effective e blunting in response to others

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What is lack of bodily resonancing?

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The inability of emotion to pass within.

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What did Thompson and Barrett find in 1985?

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Low empathy children have high Machiavellian scores
Those who were Mach had high affective perspective taking abilities

They suggest that high machs have a heightened feeling of others feelings and emotions, but are more insensitive to it.

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What is the preference for Machiavellian men?

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Preference for graphic horror with female victims

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