Malingering tests

Question 1

What are some indicators of feigned psychosis?

Answer 1

Rogers
- overplayed, dramatic presentation
- deliberateness and carefulness, e.g., slow speech, qualifiers, hesitations, repeating questions
- inconsistency with psychiatric diagnosis/functioning
- claims of obvious, blatant symptoms

Question 2

What is the Structured Interview of Symptoms? (SIRS, SIRS-2)

Answer 2

• 172 item structured interview
• systematic, based on Rogers
• genuiness of reported symptoms
• objective scoring

Question 3

How do you assess feigned intellectual impairment?

Answer 3

• inconsistency
• insufficient effort
• nonsensical or rare answers
• inconsistent responding across tests
• inconsistent behavior vs performance on tests

Question 4

Name 3 tests of malingering that assess neuropsych and cognitive feigning?

Answer 4

1. Test of Memory Malingering (TOMM)
2. Victoria Symptom Validity Test
3. Word Memory Test (WMT)
   - forced choice design
   - standardized
   - administered in conjunction with and compared to CAIs (intelligence, memory)

Question 5

Name 3 tests of cognitive malingering

Answer 5

1. TOMM (Test of Memory Malingering)
2. FIT (Rey Fifteen-Item Test)
3. WMT (Word Memory Test)

Question 6

What is the VIP test?

Answer 6

-Validity Indicator Profile
-cognitive and neuropsych malingering
-forced choice test

Question 7

What is the TOMM?

Answer 7

Test of Memory Malingering

Question 8

What is “below chance” responding?

Answer 8

Any score lower than that expected for 95% of random responding

Question 9

Name 3 tests used for assessing trial competence.

Answer 9

1. MacCAT-CA
2. ECST-R
3. Interdisciplinary Fitness Interview-Revised

Question 10

Define an FAI

Answer 10

Forensic Assessment Instruments
-specific for forensic evaluations
(as opposed to CAIs and FRIs)