Application of clinically-derived malingering cutoffs on the California Verbal Learning Test and the Wechsler Adult Intelligence Test-Revised to an analog malingering study

Applied Neuropsychology

Volumn 11, Issue 4, 2004, Pages 220-226

  Demakis, George J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA AT CHARLOTTE   (United States)

Author keywords

Analog study; California Verbal Learning Test; Malingering cutoffs; Wechsler Adult Intelligence Scale Revised

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CALIFORNIA VERBAL LEARNING TEST; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; INTELLIGENCE TEST; LEARNING TEST; MALE; MALINGERING; NEUROPSYCHOLOGY; NORMAL HUMAN; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; TASK PERFORMANCE;

EID: 13944258927     PISSN: 09084282     EISSN: 15324826     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1207/s15324826an1104_9     Document Type: Article

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