Detection of children's malingering on Raven's Standard Progressive Matrices.
A formula for detecting faked Raven's SPM profiles was cross-validated on 44 children and adolescents (ages 7-17). It yielded a false negative rate of 64%. However, a rule using three very easy items (i.e., any of A3, A4 or B1 missed) yielded a hit rate of 95%, with 5% false positive and negative rates. All but two of the participants were able to produce lower scores when asked to fake the test.
McKinzey
R Kim
RK
Private Practice, Albany, USA. editor@wpe.net
Prieler
Jörg
J
Raven
John
J
D000293:Adolescent; D002648:Child; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008306:Malingering / Q000175:diagnosis*; D009483:Neuropsychological Tests; D015203:Reproducibility of Results; D011795:Surveys and Questionnaires