Author Question: Which of the following statements is true about psychopaths and psychopathy? A) Psychopathy is ... (Read 141 times)

tnt_battle · **on:** Jun 22, 2018

Which of the following statements is true about psychopaths and psychopathy?

A) Psychopathy is sometimes called antisocial personality disorder or sociopathy.
B) Psychopaths are usually indifferent to the pain of others.
C) Psychopaths are much more likely than non-psychopaths to be motivated by personal gain.
D) all of the above

Question 2

Fourteen-year-old Michael Carneal shot eight of his classmates in Paducah, Kentucky, shortly after watching the movie Basketball Diaries, in which Leonardo DiCaprio committed a similar act of violence. This is an example of

A) catharsis aggression theory.
B) the social learning of violence.
C) excitation transfer theory.
D) the frustration-aggression hypothesis.