Question

A. In a paragraph (pls type no handwriritng) discuss your perceptions of criminal profiling as presented in the text compared to what is presented in the media.

SOME POINTERS SO YOU CAN GET AN IDEA:
-criminal profiling itd not only based on a persons appearence but about thier physical, emotion, and mental state.
-media tries tp justify humans who are psychopaths or crimials
-in textbooks we have ways of identifying the reasoning why the individual committed a crime

B. In a paragraoh What is the difference between psychopath brain scan vs normal? psychopaths know the difference between right and wrong but what are they lacking?

Answer 1

• B.The psychopathic brain has been an interest of study for decades due to the fact that psychopaths represent such a small segment of society and yet commit a highly disproportionate amount of criminal acts.
• And with more-and-more psychopaths having magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) scans or functional MRI (fMRI) scans, some correlates have been found. In short, the brain of a psychopath is different than a normal brain.
• There are three main parts of the brain which psychopath brain scans show significant differences in. They are in the regions of the amygdala, the prefrontal cortex, and the extended paralimbic structures.
• The amygdala in critical in the acquisition of information around us that reinforces learning. Learning, for example, is what teaches us what societal norms are and without that, we may be more prone to antisocial behavior like a psychopath. The amygdala also allows for the recognition of emotionally important information, such as the presence of threats.
• In recent studies, psychopathic brains showed less activation in the amygdala when viewing pictures depicting moral violations and fearful faces; suggesting these things simply affect a psychopathic brain less.
• Areas of the prefrontal cortex are important in monitoring our behavior, estimating consequences and incorporating emotional learning into our future decision-making process. If this area is deficient, this could mean that, for psychopaths, whatever they would learn through emotions would not affect future decisions and they may underestimate the consequences of their actions.
• A section of the prefrontal cortex – the orbitofrontal cortex – shows reduced grey matter in volume and thickness. Again, the more severe the psychopathy, the greater this deficiency seems to be.
• The activation in this region during specific tasks mirrors this finding as when psychopaths decide to cooperate, they show less activation here and when they observe an opponent being punished, this area activates more than in the normal brain.
• Recent research has shown that the dysfunction in a psychopathic brain goes beyond the mere limbic system as above and into the areas around the limbic system as well. This may indicate broader cognitive impairments in general.
• In these other regions of the brain, volume reduction has also be found and these reductions have been linked to impairments in episodic memory and in self-referential experiences perhaps meaning that psychopaths view their own memories differently than do others and perhaps see their roles in those memories differently.
• The deficits in emotions seen in psychopaths have also been linked to decreased grey matter volume in parts of the brain.
• Adult psychopaths have deficits in emotional processing and inhibitory control, engage in morally inappropriate behavior, and generally fail to distinguish moral from conventional violations.
• These observations, together with a dominant tradition in the discipline which sees emotional processes as causally necessary for moral judgment, have led to the conclusion that psychopaths lack an understanding of moral rights and wrongs.
• Psychopaths make the same kind of moral distinctions as healthy individuals when it comes to evaluating the permissibility of an action embedded in a moral dilemma.Psychopaths know what is right or wrong, but simply don’t care.
• They know the difference, some will make a point of not acting a certain way and follow a path of general right and wrong. While others will simply not care and will say/do whatever they feel like.
• Either way they are lacking a concience about it, they would not feel bad if they did something even if it went against the path they set for themselves. For example if someone trusted them with a secret that would put them in prison and the Psychopath ended up putting that person in prison they’d feel nothing at all.
• Due to time limit,remaining question can be asked as another question,it will be answered,thankyou for your cooperation.