2011-12-01T17:14:13-08:00
Resource:Colorado Assessment Tests - Symptom Validity
CAT Symptom Validity
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Memory impairment is one of the most common complaints after head injury, and accordingly, individuals may attempt to feign memory impairment or exaggerate symptoms of memory impairment. This free neuropsychological evaluation software contains some of the most common tests used to detect malingering of memory impairment.<br />
This software package contains a number of tests of declarative memory that assess recall of information that has a personal and temporal context. The typical example of declarative tests used for detecting malingering are the auditory verbal learning test and forced choice test. These tests are included in Symptom Validity along with other tests of declarative memory (e.g., prose recall, questionnaire tests).<br />
Unfortunately, classification of individuals is not completely accurate even with the use of multiple declarative memory tests. Thus, other tests that can complement previously used declarative memory measures by enhancing classification accuracy may be of great value to the neuropsychologist assessing the possibility of malingering. Your software contains two tests of nondeclarative memory that have been previously shown to be useful in the detection of malingered memory deficits (Davis et al., 1997a, 1997b). These tests take advantage of the general laypersons misunderstanding of the test performance of a truly memory impaired individual. That is, amnesic patients have been shown to perform normally on these nondeclarative memory tests and this is counterintuitive to the memory performance expectations of the general layperson. The nondeclarative tests included in Symptom Validity are two repetition priming tests of word stem completion and two tests of pattern categorization learning.<br />
Note: At this time this program will run only on Windows 98. We are currently working on a version that will run under the newer operating systems.<br />
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Resource:Colorado Assessment Tests - Symptom Validity
2011-09-20T00:00:00
Symptom Validity
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Prose recall
Nondeclarative memory
Neuropsychological assessment
Memory recall
Memory impairment
Memory
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Disfunctional
Declarative memory
Craniocerebral trauma
Auditory verbal learning test
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University of Colorado Colorado Springs; Colorado; USA
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