The Rey 15-item test

Figure. An early test for memory malingering (Rey, 1958). After a 10-second presentation of this card, the patient is asked to draw as many items as possible from memory. Although seemingly difficult because it contains 15 items, the task is actually simple because the logical progression of stimuli makes them very easy to remember. The total number of items recalled, with a cutoff of ⩽7, shows high specificity but low sensitivity for symptom exaggeration. Although more sophisticated symptom validity tools have replaced this test, we show this figure as a prototype of visual memory testing.