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Validation of a new technique to detect malingering of cognitive symptoms: the b Test.
We administered the b Test, a new measure to identify malingering requiring recognition of overlearned information, to 34 suspected malingerers and to 161 subjects in various clinical groups (moderate to severe head injury, elderly depressed, learning disability, schizophrenia, right and left CVA, and elderly normals). Comparisons of groups revealed more commission and omission errors in the su...
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A category classification test was used to differentiate between normal student eontrol participant.~. students instructed to malinger a memory deficit, and amnesic" patients. Controls (N = 44) and amnesic patients (N = 10) were instructed to do their best, while simulators of malingering (N = 43) were instructed to fake a memory deficit for credit and possible financial compensation. Partieipa...
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IT is not easy to outwit a malingerer clainming a reduction of his visual acuity to approximately the same extent in both eyes. Some suspicion is aroused if the examinee reads fluently the first three or four lines of the sight-test and suddenly stops, as if he has decided beforehand lhow far down he will read. A clever malingerer, who has a certain knowledge of the principles underlying our te...
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OBJECTIVE To describe a visual acuity test for use in identifying psychogenic visual impairment and malingering. METHODS The test contained 32 white plates with a black Landolt C printed in the center. The sequence of the 4 alternative directions of the C was not predictable. After plate 21, 4 circles were interspersed among the remaining plates. The test is administered at a distance from wh...
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Research on the Test of Memory Malingering (TOMM) [Tombaugh, T. N., 1996. The Test of Memory Malingering. Toronto, Canada: Multi-Health Systems], has consistently shown that it is sensitive to exaggerated or deliberate faking of memory impairment, but it is relatively unaffected by a wide variety of neurological impairments causing genuine memory dysfunction. However, there is little research o...
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ژورنال
عنوان ژورنال: The Boston Medical and Surgical Journal
سال: 1918
ISSN: 0096-6762,1533-4406
DOI: 10.1056/nejm191808151790709