Test of Memory Malingering.
TOMM
- What it measures
- Performance/effort validity (symptom validity); detection of feigned or exaggerated memory impairment
- Length and format
- 50 picture items, 2 learning trials + optional retention trial. forced-choice visual recognition (performance), correct count vs cut-off (e.g., <45 Trial 2) (performance/ability test)
- Language versions
- Pictures are language-free; validated in many countries (e.g., Singapore, Europe)
- Normative data
- No normative data held in our reference library for this instrument. That is a statement about our library, not about the published literature.
- Licence
- copyrighted - commercial
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- Reference
- Tombaugh TN. Test of Memory Malingering (TOMM). MHS; 1996.
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