L6 Psychopaths Flashcards

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3 Types of psychopaths

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  • Primary psychopath (true psychopath)
  • secondary psychopath (antisocial behavur from emptional problem)
  • Antisocial personality disorder
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4 Dimension position for psychopaths

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  • Interpersonal (lying, sexual behaviour)
  • Impulsive lifestyle
  • Affective (shallow emotions)
  • Antisocial tendencies
    Recidivism is high
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What is the arosual level of Psychopaths

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Low

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Psychopathys hemisphere asymmetry

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unusa balcne in lanague process & emotional/arosual state
- left hemisphere deficient in linguistic process for criminal psychopaths

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Psychopaths biological dysfunction

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  • hemisphere asymmetry as unbalance in lanaguage process & emotional arosusal state
  • frontal lobe defection (lesions/injury asscoiayed with violent behaviou in FL)
  • amygdala dysfunction (emotional deficiency)
  • ANS underactive or underaroused (ie unavoid learning + very litte autonomic activity which is learnt or inherit)
  • more likely intoxicated
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Psychopath childhood

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  • heritable influence stregtehn or weakened in childhood
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