Psychopathy

Terminology

100

This German Psychiatrist coined the term "Psychopath"

J.L.A Koch

200

True or false: sociopathy is the unofficial term for APD.

True 

300

Equipping parents with the tools to identify early signs of Anti Social Personality Disorder and reward or limit positive or negative behaviors is referred to as...

Parent Training

400

This term falls under Cluster B in the DSM-V and describes a personality disorder that involves a pervasive pattern of disregard for and violation of the rights of others.

Antisocial Personality Disorder

500

This is a non-DSM term describing a category of people who display superficial charm and lack of remorse.

Psychopathy

Symptoms

100

This symptom of psychopathy is defined as a failure or inability to understand how others may feel.

Lack of Empathy

200

This symptom of psychopathy is characterized by an individuals behavior whereby they do what they want regardless of the consequences.

Impulsivity

300

This type of charm is what makes psychopaths seem charismatic and appealing during conversation.

Superficial Charm

400

This symptom of sociopathy is defined as manipulating others for their own personal gain.

Deceit

500

Individuals with this disorder do not care about other's feelings and make it very known.

Sociopathy

Causes

100

If this part of the brain is damaged or impaired, it can create the symptoms expressed by people with psychopathy.

Amygdala

200

This Neurobiological explanation for the cause of psychopathy states that psychopaths possess a higher threshold for experiencing fear than most people. Therefore, things that would be really scary to us would have no effect on a psychopath.

The fearlessness hypothesis

300

A study involving a Dutch family in which most of the male members committed violent crimes allowed researchers studying psychopathy to determine there is is a gene for this type of emotion.

Aggression

400

A cause of psychopathy is childhood trauma. Is it true/false that this is because they tend to "turn off" their emotions to cope with the trauma they have experienced.

True

500

True or False: the causes of psychopathy are not contested?

False: the causes of psychopathy remain contested

Serial Killer Facts

100

This psychopathic serial killer was recently depicted in a Netflix series documenting his life story and how he became a cannibal.

Jeffrey Dahmer

200

This serial killer famously represented himself in his own court case where he was charged with multiple murders of young women and escaped prison twice.

Ted Bundy

300

This serial killer was known as "The Clown Killer" and was responsible for murdering over two dozen young men.

John Wayne Gacy

400

This fictional serial killer was featured in the film "Silence of the Lambs."

Hannibal Lecter

500

This serial killer was tied to several deaths in the slums of London England in 1888. Their nickname was exposed in a letter supposedly composed by the murderer themself. They have never been identified and the murder cases have never been solved.

Jack the Ripper

Testing

100

Created by Starke Hathaway and Charnley McKinley, this testing method is a personality inventory comprised of over 500 true-or-false questions. 

Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory (MMPI)

200

Created by Robert Hare, this instrument is used to diagnose individuals for the presence of psychopathy through a semi structured interview, institutional file review, and testimonials from family and loved ones.

Revised Psychopathy Checklist (PCL-R)

300

An individual obtains this score or higher on the PCL-R to be considered for a psychopathy diagnosis.

30 or higher

400

Psychopathy is difficult to test for because these individuals display this nature of symptomology, making self-reports overexaggerated.

Deceptive

500

In the case of psychopathy, responses from this testing method are compared against results from other psychopaths to assist with the diagnosis.

MMPI