Functional Hearing Loss:

Terms:
    1.  Pseudohypacusis (apparent loss of hearing without an organic disorder or with insufficient
                                    pathological evidence to explain the extent of the loss)
    2.  Nonorganic hearing loss (suggests that some or part of a claimed hearing disorder is not the
                                    direct result of an organic condition of the auditory system)
    3.  Malingerer (a deleberate falsifier of phychological symptoms for some special gain)
    4.  Psychogenic (a nonorganic problem whose cause is phychological rather than deliberately
                             feigned)


Possible Motives for faking:
    1.  Financial gain in the form of compensation for HL
    2.  To gain attention
    3.  Excuse for other failures

Possible Audiometric Results:
    1.  Any inconsistency should be noted, test/re-test reliability will foten be poor
    2.  PTA and SRT do not agree
    3.  Unilateral hearing loss
    4.  Configuration typically flat
    5.  Excellent WRSs at a level at or below supposed thresholds

(Information taken from Peggy W. from Ball State University Au.D. program)