The Research Has Strongly Supported the Reliability and Validity of the PCL-R

question 9

True/False

The research has strongly supported the reliability and validity of the PCL-R for distinguishing criminal psychopaths from criminal nonpsychopaths and for helping correctional psychologists in risk assessments of inmates.

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Definitions:

Infantile Amnesia

The inability of adults to retrieve episodic memories (memories of situations or events) from before the age of two to four years.

Egocentrism

A concept in developmental psychology referring to an individual's inability to differentiate between their own perspective and that of others, often observed in children.

Object Permanence

The realization that objects still exist even when they are not visible, audible, or detectable by any other senses.

Accommodation

In cognitive psychology, the process by which existing mental schemas are modified or new schemas are created to absorb new information.