What is the difference between psychopathy and antisocial personality disorder quizlet?

red letters followed by shock 20% of the time; green letters never followed by shock; red letters are threat-conditioned

in threat-focused situation, psychopaths exhibit normal fear potentiated startle, but in alternative-focused situation, exhibit low fear potentiated startle; this demonstrates that higher-order cognitive processes mediate deficits in psychopaths' fear response

four conditions: threat or alternative focus and early or late presentation; early presentation of alternative focus = lowest fear potentiated startle in psychopaths

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What is ASPD?

DSM: Antisocial Personality Disorder
ICD: Dissocial personality disorder

challenging type of personality disorder, characterised by
-impulsive, irresponsible and often criminal behaviour.
- manipulative, reckless, and disregard for others

- An adult who receives a diagnosis for antisocial personality disorder must have a history of conduct disorder.
- The DSM doesn't allow doctors to diagnose any personality disorder in children
- A person diagnosed with antisocial personality disorder must experience his or her symptoms outside of the context mania or schizophrenia.

What is a "sociopath"?

- Violation of social norms
- a person with a personality disorder manifesting itself in extreme antisocial attitudes and behaviour
- like, closing the door on people, being loud, being rude according to people from PsychForums

What is psychopathy and the three clusters?

- Cleckley and Hare.
- refers to shallow emotions, lack of empathy, superficial charm, manipulativeness (Viding et al., 2014)
- term not used in DSM or ICD but is similar to anti-social/dissocial
- difficult to treat (Brazil et. al, 2016)

The three clusters of personality disorders listed by the DSM-IV-TR (American Psychiatric Association 2000):
- 'odd-eccentric' (Cluster A),
- 'emotionaldramatic' (Cluster B)
- 'anxious-fearful' (Cluster C)

What is the difference between psychopathy and ASPD?

Psychopathy and ASPD mirror each other in definition. typically do such things as:
- disregard the others
- display superficial charm, lack of guilt
- break the law
- behave irresponsibly
- act impulsively

The cause of psychopathy is different than the cause of sociopathy. (Bouchard et al., 1990)
- psychopathy is the result of "nature" (genetics) physiological defect that results in the underdevelopment of the part of the brain responsible for impulse control and emotions.
- sociopathy is the result of "nurture" (environment product of childhood trauma and physical/emotional abuse.

crimes committed by a sociopath, including murder, disorganized and spontaneous whereas psychopaths would plan out their murder. Many notorious serial killers, including the late Ted Bundy is not guilty of his actions

Psychopaths are unable to have emotional attachments or feel real empathy with others whereas a sociopath would.

Describe and distinguish between a categorical and dimensional approach to understanding behaviour.

Categorical:
involving assessment of whether an individual has a disorder on the basis of symptoms and characteristics.

Strengths:
Helps communication
Allows diagnosis

Weaknesses:
Low inter reliability
Overlap between symptoms can make diagnosis tricky
Stigma and labelling
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Dimensional:
classifying mental disorders that quantifies a person's symptoms represents them with numerical values rather than assigning them to a mental disorder category.
Lower scores equate to lower impairment and higher scores equate to higher impairment.

Strengths:
More detailed information on each symptom
It takes into account a wider range of factors more than categorical approaches
A profile is created instead of labelling.

Weaknesses:
Time consuming
no standard inventory to compare scores to making diagnosis difficult.

How many factors and facets have been identified in psychopathy?
Give examples of traits from each other factors and facets.

Psychopathy Checklist (1985) or Hare Psychopathy Checklist-revised (PCL-R) 1990 has 2 Factors, 4 Facets, 20 Items

Factor 1: Interpersonal/Affective
-superficial charm
-grandiose estimation of self
-cunning and manipulativeness
- lack of remorse or guilt
- shallow affect
- lack of empathy
- impulsivity
- irresponsibility
- failure to accept
- responsibility for own actions

Factor 2:
Lifestyle/Antisocial
- Parasitic lifestyle
- poor behavioural control
- criminal versality

psychopathy relates to both factors but if higher in 1 then they are successful psychopaths
ASPD is only Factor 2

What is a successful psychopath?
Which traits and facets would they demonstrate?

- the successful psychopath (James Fallon) displays many features of the psychopathic personality — but with real-life success rather than crime and imprisonment

- Psychopaths in Suits
The key difference between successful and standard psychopaths seemed to be in the personality dimension known as conscientiousness

- gene by environment

- High of Factor 1, low on 2

What pattern of these traits and facets might be shown in someone diagnosed with ASPD?

- Facet 3 + 4

What are the causes of ASPD and psychopathy?
Can we distinguish between these?

Genes may make you vulnerable to developing antisocial personality disorder — and life situations may trigger its development

genes may play a role in both, sociopathy is more nurture than nature / seen more as products of their environment and upbringing. Whereas, psychopaths have a much stronger link to genetic traits.

When was the term ASPD introduced in the DSM?
In what way was this an important departure from previous conceptions and antisocial behaviour?

1980 DSM-III
it was not a discrete diagnostic category but as lying on a second axis (Cromby, 2013) meaning that it was seen as a disorder that could be experience by a person with another diagnosis

What did Lykken's research in the 1950s suggest about the biological correlates of psychopathy and/or ASPD?

(a) clearly defective as compared
to normals in their ability to develop
(i.e. condition) anxiety, in the sense of an anticipatory
emotional response to warning signals
previously associated with nociceptive stimulation.
Persons with such a defect would also
be expected to show (b) abnormally little
manifest, anxiety in life situations normally conducive
to this response, and to be (c) relatively
incapable of avoidance learning under circumstances
where such learning can only be effected
through the mediation of the anxiety
response.

Do those with ASPD differ from those who are designated as "psychopaths" in terms of startle response, SES, substance use/misuse and recidivism?

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If ASPD is considered a "mental illness", are those diagnosed with it responsible for their actions?

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What is the difference between antisocial personality disorder and psychopathy?

As noted above, only one third of those with AsPD in the general population meet the criteria for psychopathy. Psychopathy is characterized by features that are not diagnostic criteria for AsPD, such as lack of empathy, arrogance and excessive vanity.

What is the difference between psychopath and social?

Psychopaths tend to be more manipulative, can be seen by others as more charming, lead a semblance of a normal life, and minimize risk in criminal activities. Sociopaths tend to be more erratic, rage-prone, and unable to lead as much of a normal life.

Is psychopathy and antisocial personality synonymous?

Psychopathy (renamed antisocial personality disorder) is marked by persistent violations of social norms, including lying, stealing, truancy, inconsistent work behavior and traffic arrests.

What is the difference between a psychopath and borderline personality disorder?

The gestalt difference is that someone with BPD often feels out of control and victimized while the psychopath is more able to regulate his or her affect and derives a sense of power from the ability to manipulate, deceive and control others.