Really‚ there is no way that one cannot believe that he is anything less. Some people believe that he is a psychopath‚ but that is not true. The Joker feels emotion‚ and the definition of psychopathy is that a person feels no emotion whatsoever. His emotion may be sick humor‚ or anger‚ and occasional sadness when one of his plans doesn’t go right‚ but he does feel genuine emotion. But even with his insanity‚ the fact is that he is a brilliant
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Chapter 4: Psychological and Biological Perspectives Key Terms: Attachment: The bond between parent and child or between individuals and their family‚ friends‚ and school. Behavioral Modeling: Learning how to behave by fashioning one’s behavior after that of others. Biocriminology: The sub-discipline of criminology that investigates biological and genetic factors and their relation to criminal behavior. Chromosomes: Basic cellular structures containing genes‚ i.e.‚ biological material that creates
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Emotion: a complex psychological state or response 1) Physiological arousal 2) Expressive behaviours 3) Consciously experienced thoughts and feelings James-Lange Theory: Our experience of emotion is our awareness of our physiological responses to emotion-arousing stimuli. Perception of stimulus (car) arousal (pounding heart) emotion (fear) Cannon-Bard Theory: An emotion-arousing stimulus simultaneously triggers (1) physiological responses and (2) the experience of emotion perception
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threats and emotional stimuli. A study carried out by in a 1994 prison population measured the cardiac‚ facial muscle‚ and electrodermal reactions of psychopathic and non psychopathic individuals in response to and found that subjects with low-psychopathy had more significantly higher responses to fearful imagery than the psychopathic subjects (Patrick 1994). More recent studies utilize electroencephalograms (EEGS) in order to monitor brain activity. Electroencephalograms (EEGs) done on certified
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Biological Criminal Behavior Randy Morgan Axia College Jennifer Duncan February 9th‚ 2013 After being accused of murder in February‚ David Tarloff was being kept in a locked ward three stories up in Bellevue Hospital. David Tarloff‚ 39‚ is under evaluation after his arrest in the killing of psychologist‚ Kathryn Faughey with a meat-cleaver on the
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Should euthanasia be allowed? A 60-year-old man killed himself yester day and left this incredibly detailed website as his suicide note by Chelsea Fagan This is the account of an intelligent lucid man who knew perfectly well that we was doing and did it with the intent of leaving a minimum amount of pain or confusion. This man decided to take his death into his own hands. He did not want to die not recognizing the people that he loved‚ or losing the ability to say his last words. He rejects
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There is a predictor at an early age that can show whether or not a boy may grow up to be a sociopath‚ and it is how he was raised by his father growing up. The author‚ David Guttman‚ makes the claim that the “tough love” father may be the best in order to ensure that the child grows up the way a man should‚ and to ensure that he does not exhibit sociopathic tendencies. The traditional father‚ also known as the “tough love” father‚ is an enforcer of sorts‚ and he does this in order to shape the boy
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Notes on Eating Disorders. DSM-IV-TR recognizes three different forms of eating disorder: anorexia nervosa‚ bulimia nervosa‚ and eating disorder NOS. A fourth type of eating disorder‚ binge-eating disorder‚ is listed in the Appendix and is not yet part of the formal DSM. Both anorexia nervosa and bulimia nervosa are characterized by an intense fear of becoming fat and a drive for thinness. Patients with anorexia nervosa are seriously underweight. This is not true of patients with bulimia nervosa
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With reference to psychological theory‚ discuss whether criminals are born or made. Over the years‚ much debate has surrounded the question of Criminality‚ why it occurs and how it can be controlled. Can a person simply be born evil or are they merely a product of circumstance? A wealth of research has been done on the subject of Nature versus Nurture and a number of esteemed theories have been put forward. This essay will address the various arguments in favour of each theory‚ evaluating both
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The nature vs. nurture debate is one of the oldest arguments in psychology. There are valid points pertaining both sides of the argument‚ is behaviour predisposed in DNA or is it influenced by the environment? Nativists argue maturation governs attachment in infancy and cognitive development. The opposite end is empiricists; they believe everyone is born with a blank canvas that eventually gets filled with behaviours as a result of experience‚ both linking directly to attachment theory. This essay
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