Conducting research with non-clinical healthy undergraduates: Does effort play a role in neuropsychological test performance?

Archives of Clinical Neuropsychology

Volumn 27, Issue 8, 2012, Pages 849-857

  An, Kelly Y ^a   Zakzanis, Konstantine K ^a   Joordens, Steve ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

Author keywords

Effort; External validity; Outlier detection methodology; Symptom validity tests; Undergraduate students

Indexed keywords

EID: 84872964343     PISSN: 08876177     EISSN: 18735843     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/arclin/acs085     Document Type: Article

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