Forensic psychology

Mentally disordered

Bad

Attempting to meet their objectives in opposing circumstances

Model in which the patient creates the symptoms and portrays them as genuine

Models presuppose malingering is likely to occur with (1) a person with antisocial personality disorder (APD), (2) evaluations conducted for forensic purposes, (3) persons uncooperative with evaluation and treatment, and (4) persons whose claims are discrepant with objective findings

Model in which would-be malingerers engage on cost-benefit analysis with an assessment they percieve as indifferent to their needs

Model that attempted to test the efficacy of DSM-IV indicators of malingering on a forensic sample

Demonstrating charcteristics including (1) glibness and superficial charm, (2) pathological lying, (3) conning and manipulativenes, basically just takes advantage of others

Conscious fabrication or gross exaggeration of physical and/or psychological symptoms for an external goal

The conscious denial or gross miminimization of physical and/or psychological symptoms

A response style in which the individual does not become psychologically engaged in the accessment process

A subset of irrelevant responding in which a random pattern can be identified

A response pattern reflecting a patient's sincere attempt to be accurate in his/her responses

Using any combination of responding styles

Describes an individual who is deliberately distorting or misrepresenting psychological symptoms

Clinically the characteristics of an individual whose response style is not honest andvis self-disclosing, yet in which no further clarifcation can be made with respect to his/her self-reporting

Any and all attempts by an individual to distort or misrepresent his/her self-reporting

How much an individual reveals about him or herself

The denial of negative characteristics and the attribution of positive qualities

Social behaviors by attempting to create a positive image and avoid embarrassment and other negative emotions

The research problem exemplified by simulation studies of dissimulation in which participants are asked to comply with instructions to fake problems in order to study patients who fake dptoms when asked to compy with their psychological or medical assessment