Utility of the Personality Assessment Inventory for Detecting Malingered ADHD in College Students.

Objective: The purpose of the current study is to examine the utility of the Personality Assessment Inventory (PAI) for detecting feigned ADHD in college students.

Method: A sample of 238 undergraduate students was recruited and asked to simulate ADHD (ADHD simulators) or respond honestly (controls) on the PAI. Archival data (n = 541) from individuals diagnosed with clinical ADHD, no diagnosis, learning disorder, mood/anxiety, comorbid ADHD-mood/anxiety, or suspect effort were used.

Using the NAART to estimate WRAT-4 reading grade level in a predominantly African American sample.

Tests of word-reading ability, such as the North American Adult Reading Test (NAART) and Wide Range Achievement Test (WRAT) Word Reading subtest, are often used by neuropsychologists to estimate premorbid intelligence. However, despite the fundamental basis in reading, little work has been done to calculate or estimate literacy level from NAART performance. Additionally, few prior studies have evaluated the use of word-reading tests in underrepresented populations such as African Americans or individuals with lower socioeconomic status and educational attainment.

College students' conceptualizations of deficits involved in mild intellectual disability.

Precedential rulings in recent capital murder trials may, in some cases, leave it up to a jury to determine whether or not an individual meets criteria for an intellectual disability (ID) and should be spared from the death penalty. Despite the potential for misconceptions about ID to bias decisions, few empirical studies have examined the public's conceptualizations of individuals with ID. This study sought to examine 890 college students' conceptualizations of the deficits involved in mild ID.

Development and validation of the stanford binet-5 rarely missed items-nonverbal index for the detection of malingered mental retardation.

Current research suggests that effort indices designed for the detection of malingered neurocognitive functioning do not have adequate sensitivity or specificity for use in cases where malingered mental retardation (MR) is the issue. Therefore, development and validation of reliable, objective measures for the detection of malingered MR have become imperative for both forensic and disability cases in recent years. The purpose of this study was to develop and validate an embedded malingering index for the Stanford Binet Intelligence Scales, Fifth Edition.