Violence

Question 1

Affective Violence

Answer 1

• intense ANS arousal
• subjective experience of emotion
• reactive and immediate violence
• internal or external threat
• goal is threat reduction
• rapid displacement of target
• time-limited behavior
• preceded by public posturing
• primarily emotional
• heightened and diffuse awareness

Question 2

Predatory Violence

Answer 2

• minimal or no ANS
• no conscious emotion
• planned and purposeful
• no minimal threat
• many goals
• no target displacement
• no time limit to behavior
• preceded by private ritual
• primarily cognitive- conative
• focused awareness

Question 3

Affective Terms

Answer 3

• emotional
• reactive
• impulsive
• defensive
• to protect
• a lot of vocalization

Question 4

Predatory terms

Answer 4

• instrumental

- typically silent

Question 5

Affective brain

Answer 5

less activity in the prefrontal cortex

Question 6

Predatory brains

Answer 6

no statistical difference in pre frontal cortex from their brains and the normal brain

Question 7

Neurochemistry

Answer 7

-dopamine has mixed effect on affective aggression

Question 8

Sensory signals

Answer 8

different areas in the hypothalamus activated depending on the type of violence
-lateral hypothalamus for predatory
medial hypothalamus of affective

Question 9

Psychophysiology

Answer 9

-heart rate deceleration

Question 10

who engages in violence the most?

Answer 10

crazy people

Question 11

psychopathy checklist

Answer 11

two factors four facets

Question 12

interpersonal/affective

Answer 12

• lack of remorse or guilt
• shallow affect
• conning/manipulation
• pathological lying
• grandiose sense of self worth
• callous/lack of empathy
• failure to accept responsibility for own actions
• glibness/superficial charm

Question 13

social deviancy

Answer 13

-need for stimulation/proneness to boredom
-parasitic lifestyle
-poor behavioral control
-early behavioral problems
-lack realistic long term goals
-impulsivity
-irresponsibility
-juvenile delinquency
-revocation of conditional release
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Question 14

violence and psychopathy

Answer 14

• they commit more crimes
• violence does not decrease with age
• they are more aggressive in prison
• male rather than female
• stranger victims likely
• sexual sadists are typically psychopaths
• correlates with sadistic personality traits
• violence is predatory and affective
• relatively stable across psychopath’s adult life