Malingering Flashcards
1
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Define malingering
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intentionally faking physical or psychological symptoms for some type of external gain
2
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What are the three explanatory models of malingering?
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- Pathogenic model
- Criminological model
- Adaptational model
3
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Define the pathogenic model
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- Underlying mental disorder
- They may suffer from anxiety or depression
- They lie about physical symptoms when in fact suffering from mental disorder
4
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Define the criminological model
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- These are bad people
- Antisocial disorder, where person is facing legal difficulties and lies to get out of them
- They don’t mind that they are lying
5
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Define the adaption model
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- Most common!
- Perceived adversarial context: personal stakes are very high, no alternative is perceived
- They try to fake symptoms to get out of the crisis
6
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Define malingering psychosis
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i. People who will act as bizarre as possible, claiming mental illness to get out of the crime
7
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What are eight signs of someone who is lying about psychosis?
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- Understandable motive for crime
- Presence of partner to take the fall
- Current crime fits pattern of previous behaviour
- Suspicious hallucinations
- Suspicious delusions
- Difference in behaviour between interview and real life
- Sudden emergence of symptoms to explain crime
- Absence of subtle signs of psychosis
8
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Define malingering amnesia
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- claiming to have lost memory in order to get out of a crime
- however, this often backfires, as people with amnesia are often still considered fit to stand trial
9
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Define retrograde amnesia
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inability to remember old memories
10
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Define anterograde amnesia
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Inability to form new memories
11
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Briefly describe the symptoms validity test for aterograde amnesia
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- A bunch of images are shown to you
- Later, you are presented with two pictures, one you have and haven’t seen before
- You are asked which one you’ve seen before
- if 50%, you have it. If 10%, you lying!
