personality‚ 1467-6494. This article discusses psychopathy as a personality disorder and delves deeper into the understanding of the disorder. The article explains how it relates to forensic evaluations. This gives the support needed to show the connection between psychopathy and criminal profiling. Marcus‚ PhD‚ D. K.‚ & Norris‚ MA‚ A. L. (2014). A new measure of attitudes toward sexually predatory tactics and its relation to the triarchic model of psychopathy. Journal of Personality Disorders‚ 28(2)‚
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treatable condition (Tennent et al. 1993). A similar finding was reported nearly 40 years ago (Gray and Hutchison 1964). Diagnostic refinement is critical before any treatment efforts are undertaken‚ especially the determination of the degree of psychopathy in the patient with or without DSM-IV-TR antisocial personality disorder. Psychodiagnostic Refinements
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disorder in someone‚ a tool known as the Psychopathy Checklist-Revised is used. This tool was designed by Dr. Robert Hare‚ a prominent researcher in the field of criminal psychology. An author known as Joan Esherick states that criminal psychologists‚ “study the minds and behaviors of criminals and others associated with crime in order to understand how and why they operate the way they do and to identify certain patterns of behavior.” (Esherick 15). The Psychopathy Checklist-Revised measures psychopathic
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Differential Amygdala Activity: Affective Processing Based on the theory that psychopathy would go along with abnormalities in affective‚ or emotional‚ processing due to the fact psychopaths display emotional abnormalities such as lack of empathy‚ research was conducted in 2001 to find out more about the neural underpinnings of this (Kiehl et al.‚ 2001). To study this‚ participants underwent fMRI while performing an affective memory task. Eight repetitions of twelve words were carried out‚ four containing
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The Effects of Divorce on Children Based on the Application of the Psychological Developmental Theories Abstract This paper looks at the effects of divorce on children based on the application of various psychological developmental theories. More specifically‚ children within the age groups of 4 to 6 and 7 to 11 will be taken into account. The theories explored and applied will include Freud’s psychoanalytic theory‚ Erikson’s psychosocial tasks‚ Bowlby’s attachment theory‚ Piaget’s cognitive
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levels of passivity. A study conducted by Lau and Marsee (2012) examined the correlation between the callous-unemotional personality traits (CU)‚ narcissism‚ psychopathy‚ and Machiavellianism‚ and aggression in young boys. This study found a significant correlation showing a similarity between the three personality traits narcissism‚ psychopathy‚ and Machiavellianism. Results also indicated that there was a correlation between those CU personality traits and different types of aggression (overt and
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Unit 29 Assignment 1: * P1 Explain the principal psychological perspectives applied to the understanding of the development of individuals * M1 Discuss the principal psychological perspectives applied to the understanding of the development of individuals * D1 Evaluate the principal psychological perspectives applied to the understanding of the development of individuals There are numerous debates in regards to developmental psychology. One of the main debates to begin with is nature
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Bowlby this detachment will see an increase in disruptive and deviant behaviour as well as a detachment between themselves and their children in the future. Bowlby even goes as far as to suggest that the affected child could possibly grow into an affectionless psychopath lacking and social conscience. Bowlby based his research on a group of children who had been referred to his clinic for stealing (Juvenile thieves). Bowlby found that 32% of them were indeed lacking any conscious understanding or empathy
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This example has additionally been alluded to as psychopathy‚ sociopathy‚ or dissocial personality issue. Misdirection and control are focal components of antisocial personality issue‚ it might be particularly useful to incorporate data procured from precise clinical appraisal with data gathered from security sources (APA‚ 2013). Psychopathy and antisocial personality issue (APD) have for some time been viewed as vital hazard factors for criminal
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| Attachment Theory | 7th June 2010 | | By Sandra Thomas | | | Q1. Explain the development of attachment in infants. [Criteria 1.1 & 1.2)(500 words) (You are expected to consider the original explanation given by Bowlby and the alternative explanation by Schaffer and Emerson. I.e. Monotrophy vs. Multiple attachment and the stages as described by Bowlby) 529 words John Bowlby believed that in the early stages of child development the maternal relationship was the basis
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