PSY 442 Lecture Notes - Lecture 16: Malingering, Psy, Response Bias
29 Jul 2020
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Neuropsychology in the context of simulation, exaggeration, or low effort. Simulation is defined as the intentional and voluntary production of physical and psychological symptoms, false or exaggerated, in order to obtain external incentives ( these incentives can be invalidity pensions, compensation or declarations of interdiction, among others. From a neuropsychological point of view, memory deficits are the most frequently simulated after acquired brain damage ( ). In this context, various studies have been carried out that analyze the response patterns that simulator subjects deliver during enp. In thesestudies have observed that there are specific items for certain tests, which are very rarely performed poorly by patients with brain damage, but are often poorly performed by simulators. On the other hand, some specific instruments have been developed for simulation, exaggeration or low effort detection, such as the word memory test, victoria symptoms validity test, test of memory. These tasks should be administered at the beginning of the.
