The relationship of IQ to effort test performance

Clinical Neuropsychologist

Volumn 22, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 705-722

  Dean, Andy C ^a   Victor, Tara L ^b   Boone, Kyle B ^a   Arnold, Ginger ^c  

^a HARBOR UCLA MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b CALIFORNIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c KAISER PERMANENTE   (United States)

Author keywords

Effort; IQ; Malingering; Mental retardation; Specificity; Validity

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; DIGIT SPAN AGE CORRECTED SCALED SCORE; DOT COUNTING TEST; FEMALE; FINGER TAPPING TEST; HUMAN; INTELLIGENCE QUOTIENT; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MENTAL DISEASE; NEUROLOGIC DISEASE; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TEST; OUTPATIENT; RAVLT EFFORT EQUATION TEST; RELIABLE DIGIT SPAN TEST; REY AUDITORY VERBAL LEARNING TEST; REY OSTERREITH EFFORT EQUATION TEST; REY TEST PLUS RECOGNITION COMBINATION SCORE; REY WORD RECOGNITION TEST; TASK PERFORMANCE; WARRINGTON RECOGNITION MEMORY TEST; WECHSLER INTELLIGENCE SCALE;

ADULT; DISABILITY EVALUATION; FALSE POSITIVE REACTIONS; FEMALE; HUMANS; INTELLIGENCE; INTELLIGENCE TESTS; MALE; MALINGERING; MEMORY DISORDERS; MIDDLE AGED; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TESTS; OUTPATIENTS;

EID: 46449094620     PISSN: 13854046     EISSN: 17444144     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/13854040701440493     Document Type: Article

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