lecture 8 other stuff Flashcards
1
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why does effort matter in neurological testing
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has a greater impact on test performance than brain damage
2
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malingering
A
purposefully exaggerating symptoms
3
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why would somebody malinger
A
they need to be diagnosed with something for the benefits or accomodations, munchhausen’s
4
Q
how do you catch if someone is malingering
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symptom validity testing (control questions) that anybody could get right despite brain damage, and they answer wrong
5
Q
goals for new procedures
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analyze why subject chose wrong MC answer, link items from different tests to a common scale, computerized adaptive testing (percentile ranking as you go), identify answers that change with demographic, analyze responses across time for same items and same patient (is treatment working)
