The use of the rey memory test to assess malingering in criminal defendants

Abstract

An attempt was made to evaluate the utility of the Rey Memory Test (Rey, 1964) to assess malingering in criminal defendants referred for inpatient forensic evaluation. The performance of 14 diagnosed malingerers was compared to a control group of 14 forensic inpatients who had been acquitted by reason of insanity. Malingerers performed significantly less well on the test than did controls. A previously suggested cut‐off score of 9 items remembered (Lezak, 1983) resulted in correct classification of 86% of the subjects as either malingering or not malingering. However, a cut‐off of 3 rows remembered correctly was found to be inappropriate because 57% of the controls would have been labeled incorrectly as malingerers.

An investigation into the validity of effort tests in a working age dementia population

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An investigation into the validity of effort tests in a working age dementia population

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Exploring the Accuracy and Utility of the Rey Fifteen Item Test (RMT) with Recognition Trial in a Forensic Psychiatric Population

“…RMT = Rey Fifteen Item Test effort/feigning that has been recently updated in an effort to improve classification accuracy. Sensitivity and specificity rates of the RMT recall scores in the current forensic sample (44% of and 82.4%, respectively) were similar to those found in other forensic samples (Heinze, 2003;Simon, 1994). However, the specificity rate was below the recommended range of 90% or greater (Reznek, 2005), and the RMT recall trial identified less than half of the suspected feigning and community simulator groups as potentially feigning cognitive impairment.…”

Rey II: Redesigning the Rey screening test of malingering

“…Schretlen, Brandt, Krafft, & Van Gorp (1991) found a correlation of .55 between number of correct items recalled and IQ. Simon (1994) reported a similar correlation of .72. Hays et al (1993) found Rey scores to be significantly related to intelligence and age.…”

An investigation into the validity of effort tests in a working age dementia population

“……”

Exploring the Accuracy and Utility of the Rey Fifteen Item Test (RMT) with Recognition Trial in a Forensic Psychiatric Population

“…RMT = Rey Fifteen Item Test effort/feigning that has been recently updated in an effort to improve classification accuracy. Sensitivity and specificity rates of the RMT recall scores in the current forensic sample (44% of and 82.4%, respectively) were similar to those found in other forensic samples (Heinze, 2003;Simon, 1994). However, the specificity rate was below the recommended range of 90% or greater (Reznek, 2005), and the RMT recall trial identified less than half of the suspected feigning and community simulator groups as potentially feigning cognitive impairment.…”

Rey II: Redesigning the Rey screening test of malingering

“…Schretlen, Brandt, Krafft, & Van Gorp (1991) found a correlation of .55 between number of correct items recalled and IQ. Simon (1994) reported a similar correlation of .72. Hays et al (1993) found Rey scores to be significantly related to intelligence and age.…”

An investigation into the validity of effort tests in a working age dementia population

“……”

Exploring the Accuracy and Utility of the Rey Fifteen Item Test (RMT) with Recognition Trial in a Forensic Psychiatric Population

“…RMT = Rey Fifteen Item Test effort/feigning that has been recently updated in an effort to improve classification accuracy. Sensitivity and specificity rates of the RMT recall scores in the current forensic sample (44% of and 82.4%, respectively) were similar to those found in other forensic samples (Heinze, 2003;Simon, 1994). However, the specificity rate was below the recommended range of 90% or greater (Reznek, 2005), and the RMT recall trial identified less than half of the suspected feigning and community simulator groups as potentially feigning cognitive impairment.…”

Rey II: Redesigning the Rey screening test of malingering

“…Schretlen, Brandt, Krafft, & Van Gorp (1991) found a correlation of .55 between number of correct items recalled and IQ. Simon (1994) reported a similar correlation of .72. Hays et al (1993) found Rey scores to be significantly related to intelligence and age.…”