Types of Psychopaths
Displays aggressive, antisocial behavior they have learned from their subculture, similar to gangs.
What is a dyssocial psychopath?
An interpersonal style that is characterized by fearlessness, being relatively immune to stress or anxiety.
What is the boldness factor?
Neuropsychological indicators.
What are markers?
Those who have committed crimes but avoided arrest and conviction for offenses.
What is a successful psychopath?
Most closely associated with the affective-interpersonal factors?
What is low-fear-temperament?
A "true" psychopath.
What is a primary psychopath?
Closely associated with a socially deviant or antisocial lifestyle, as characterized by poor planning, impulsiveness and excessive need to stimulation.
What is factor 2?
Criminal psychopaths manifest an abnormal or unusual balance between the two hemispheres, both in language processing and emotional states.
What is hemisphere asymmetry?
A disorder that falls into the same spectrum of psychopathy?
What is schizophrenia?
Mostly associated with the lifestyle-antisocial factors.
What is impaired cognitive-executive-function?
Those who engage in repetitive antisocial or criminal behavior?
What is a criminal psychopath?
Deficient empathy, disdain for and lack of close attachments with others rebelliuosness, excitement seeking, and physical cruelty.
What is the meanness factor?
Consists of the brain and spinal cord.
What is the central nervous system?
When psychopaths have a remarkable disregard for the truth.
What is a pathological liar?
High anger and irritability or closeness to others.
What is affiliation?
One who commits antisocial or violent acts because of sever emotional problems.
What is a secondary psychopath?
Reflects the interpersonal and emotional components of psychopathy and consists of items measuring remorselessness.
What is factor 1?
Nerve cells that make up the peripheral nervous system.
What are neurons?
The central or cardinal feature of psychopathy.
What is impulsivity?
Adult psychopaths usually exhibit this in their childhood.
What is antisocial behavior?
A persuasive pattern of disregard for, and violation of, the rights of others.
Emotional shallowness, callousness, and lack of empathy that are characteristic of most psychopaths.
What is factor 3?
When psychopaths demonstrate normal appraisal of emotional cues and situations in the abstract, but they are deficient in using emotional cues.
What is an emotional paradox?
The lack of remorse in psychopaths when they commit such immoral acts.
What is the cardinal fault?
Psychopaths are profoundly affected by this.
What is alcohol?