PSYC39H3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: Binomial Theorem, Mental Health Court, Malingering
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Fitness to stand trial:basic idea-fundamental justice: people with mental disorders are cognitively and emotionally impaired, they may be unable to effectively participate in a legal defense, they may therefore be found guilty even if they are innocent. Instruments: nussbaum fitness questionnaire (nfq; formerly metfors fitness. Questionnaire or mfq: designed as a screening tool, permutation model of test construction. This allows norm free inferences regarding: fitness/unfitness, blatant malingering, subtle malingering. 2 absurd answers: nfq, permutation model of test construction, example, the judges" main job in court is to, 1. Dress up in a clown"s suit and dance: 2. Write everything down that people say: 4. Probabilities on each questions for: correct incorrect absurd, 16% 50% 33, for all 17 multiple choice questions, the binomial theorem generates exact probabilities for any number of correct, incorrect and absurd responses. Reading test: correlates with the # of correct responses on nfq. Mfq differentiated between fit and unfit: 2.
