Premium
Malingering on neuropsychological memory tests: Potential objective indicators
Author(s) -
Bernard Larry C.,
Houston Wes,
Natoli Lisa
Publication year - 1993
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(199301)49:1<45::aid-jclp2270490107>3.0.co;2-7
Subject(s) - malingering , psychology , wechsler adult intelligence scale , recall , neuropsychology , raven's progressive matrices , verbal learning , neuropsychological test , audiology , test (biology) , memory test , wechsler memory scale , psychometrics , cognitive psychology , recognition memory , developmental psychology , clinical psychology , cognition , psychiatry , medicine , paleontology , biology
We evaluated five potential indicators of malingering on the Rey Memory Test (RMT), Hebb's Recurring Digits (HRD), the Wechsler Memory Scale Revised (WMS‐R). the Complex Figure Test (CFT), and the Auditory Verbal Learning Test (AVLT). Fifty‐seven subjects were assigned randomly to either a control group or a simulated malingering group. Two indicators ‐ discriminant functions derived from the WMS‐R and from the CFT/AVLT achieved classification accuracy of 88% and 86%, respectively, without misidentifying controls as malingerers. Among the remaining indicators, there were problems with the recommended RMT cut‐off, but it and the HRD show some promise. Subjects who simulated malingering did so by suppressing performance on tasks that involve recall as well as recognition memory and are relatively easy, but not obviously so.