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Detection of children's malingering on Raven's Standard Progressive Matrices
Author(s) -
McKinzey R. Kim,
Prieler Jörg,
Raven John
Publication year - 2003
Publication title -
british journal of clinical psychology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.479
H-Index - 92
eISSN - 2044-8260
pISSN - 0144-6657
DOI - 10.1348/014466503762842048
Subject(s) - raven's progressive matrices , malingering , psychology , test (biology) , developmental psychology , clinical psychology , psychiatry , cognition , paleontology , biology
A formula for detecting faked Raven's SPM profiles was cross‐validated on 44 children and adolescents (ages 7–17). It yielded a false negative rate of 64%. However, a rule using three very easy items (i.e., any of A3, A4 or B1 missed) yielded a hit rate of 95%, with 5% false positive and negative rates. All but two of the participants were able to produce lower scores when asked to fake the test.