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Cognitive traps to detect hidden schizophrenia
Author(s) -
Audubon James John
Publication year - 1986
Publication title -
journal of clinical psychology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.124
H-Index - 119
eISSN - 1097-4679
pISSN - 0021-9762
DOI - 10.1002/1097-4679(198601)42:1<123::aid-jclp2270420119>3.0.co;2-p
Subject(s) - minnesota multiphasic personality inventory , psychology , false positive paradox , schizophrenia (object oriented programming) , clinical psychology , psychometrics , cognition , test (biology) , malingering , psychiatry , audiology , medicine , social psychology , personality , artificial intelligence , paleontology , biology , computer science
A 62‐item forced choice questionnaire was designed to measure schizophrenia without yielding significant numbers of false positives and false negatives. Manipulation of difference limens for recognition of pathology between paired attitudinal statements allows more accurate assessment of test defensiveness than true‐false techniques used with the MMPI. Hospitalized, tranquilized schizophrenics ( N = 83) whose symptoms are either in remission or obscured by defensiveness are identified even when MMPI scale‐8 T scores are <70. This study has implications for forensic assessment.