PSYC 601 First Section

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factor 1 of psychopathy

Feelings & relationships: glibness, grandiose, deceitful, lack of remorse, shallow emotions, lack of empathy
factor 2 of psychopathy

Behavior & control: need for excitement, poor behavioral controls, early behavior problems, impulsive, irresponsible
goal-oriented aggression

instrumental aggression
hostile and a response to perceived provocation

reactive aggression
believing that other people want to do you wrong

hostile attribution bias
see the world as a dangerous place where if you don't fight for yourself no one else will

hostile world bias
based on experience and judgment; not very good

clinical prediction
based on formulas and statistics

actuarial prediction
based on specific info about a person's behaviors in the past

anamnestic prediction
high psychosis=low violence because:

too disorganized to carry out intentions; treatment/confinement gets imposed; other ppl avoid them
delusions of a significant other being taken over by an imposter

Capgras delusion
the delusion of being threatened and controlled by outside forces, which overrides internal controls

threat control override delusions