Magnitude of error as a strategy to detect feigned memory impairment

Clinical Neuropsychologist

Volumn 12, Issue 1, 1998, Pages 84-91

  Martin, Roy C ^a   Franzen, Michael D ^b   Orey, Stephen ^c  

^a The University of Alabama at Birmingham   (United States)

^b Allegheny Neuropsychiatric Inst A   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF KENTUCKY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AMNESIA; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIAGNOSTIC TEST; ERROR; FEMALE; HEAD INJURY; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MALINGERING; MULTIPLE CHOICE TEST;

EID: 0031982367     PISSN: 13854046     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1076/clin.12.1.84.1722     Document Type: Article

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