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Qualitative dimensions in scoring the Rey Visual Memory test of malingering

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Malingerers recall significantly fewer items than nonmalingerers, while the psychiatrically disabled nonmalingerers recall fewer items than the normal ones on the Rey Visual Memory Test. Number of correct items is highly correlated with intelligence, age, or both. The mean scores of groups fail to fall below the suggested malingering cutoff score of nine correct items. Instructed malingerers make the error of omitting items most often, and report a variety of other malingering strategies on the test.

Testing, Examinations, Psychometrics, Test scoring

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Screening for malingering in a criminal-forensic sample with the personality assessment inventory

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Varying rates of malingering are detected in forensic cases and psychological testing plays a crucial role in assessing such instances, one example being the Structured Interview of Reported Symptoms (SIRS). The SIRS is a lengthy process and attempts to locate screening measures to identify clients who qualified for it homed in on the Negative Impression scale (NIM) as the most effective Personality Assessment Inventory (PAI) screening measure.

Health aspects, Psychology, Forensic, Forensic psychology

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The test of memory malingering (TOMM): Normative data from cognitively intact and cognitively impaired individuals

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The validity of the Test of Memory Malingering (TOMM) was assessed. TOMM was administered to 475 community-dwellers and 161 neurologically impaired paitents, and both groups achieved very high scores. The results show that TOMM is insensitive to genuine memory impairment and has considerable potential for determining exaggerated or faked memory impairment.

Research, Usage, Memory, Cognitive psychology

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