List of tests

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The following is an alphabetized and categorized list of notable tests.

Clinical psychology tests

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Test

! Description

! Year

Beck Depression Inventory

| Measures severity of Depression

| 1961

DASS (psychology)

| Isolate and identify aspects of emotional disturbance

| 1965

Cognitive development tests

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Test

! Description

! Year

Draw-A-Person Test

| Psychological projection test for children

| 1926

Knox Cubes

| Nonverbal intelligence test

| 1913

Modern Language Aptitude Test

| Foreign language test

| {{n/a}}

Multiple choice

| Determine the best possible answer from a list.

| 1915

Pimsleur Language Aptitude Battery

| Foreign language proficiency attainment predictor.

| 1966

Porteus Maze Test

| Measures psychological planning capacity.

| 1914

Intelligence tests

Medical tests

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Test

! Description

! Year

Apgar test

| Quickly summarizes the health of newborn children.

| 1952

Biopsy

| Cell or tissue sampling for examination.

| ?

Blood test

| Blood sample laboratory test.

| ?

DNA test

| Genetic diagnosis of vulnerabilities to inherited diseases and more.

| ?

Gait Abnormality Rating Scale

| A videotape-based analysis of 16 facets of human gait.

| 1996

Glucose Tolerance Test

| Glucose is given and blood samples taken afterward determine how quickly it is cleared from the blood.

| 1923

Ishihara colour test

| A color perception test for red-green color deficiencies.

| 1917

Liver function test

| Groups of blood tests that give information about the state of a patient's liver

| N/A

Lumbar puncture

| Cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) collection to confirm or exclude conditions

| 1891

Mantoux test

| Tuberculosis screening tool.

| 1890

Pap smear

| Cervical screening used to detect pre-cancerous and cancerous processes in the endocervical canal.

| ?

RAST test (radioallergosorbent test)

| Blood test used to determine the substances a subject is allergic to.

| 1974

Uhlenhuth test

| Forensic test to determine the species of a blood sample

| 1901

Urea Breath Test

| A rapid diagnostic procedure used to identify infections by Helicobacter pylori.

| ?

Wassermann test

| An antibody test for syphilis

| ?

Self tests

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Test

! Description

! Year

Mirror test

| Determines whether a non-human animal possesses the ability of self-recognition

| 1970

Sally-Anne test

| Measures a person's social cognitive ability to attribute false beliefs to others.

| 1985

Statistical tests

Personality tests

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Test

! Description

! Year

Activity vector analysis (AVA)

| psychometric questionnaire designed to measure four personality factors

| 1942

Bem Sex-Role Inventory

| (Gender identification)

| 1974

Big Five personality traits

| Five broad domains or dimensions of personality that are used to describe human personality

| 1961

California Psychological Inventory

| (Self-report inventory)

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DISC assessment

| A behavior assessment tool based on the DISC theory of psychologist William Moulton Marston, which centers on four{{Cite web|url=https://www.discprofile.com/what-is-disc/research-reliability-and-validity|title=Science behind DiSC®|website=Discprofile.com}} “primary emotions” and associated behavioral traits: dominance, influence, steadiness, and conscientiousness.

| 1928

Strength Deployment Inventory

| Written by Elias Porter to illuminate peoples values, motives, and strengths in response to good times and conflict.

| 1971

The Hand Test

| A projective technique that utilizes ten unbound 3.5 x 4.5 inch cards

| 1983

EQSQ Test (Empathizing–systemizing theory)

| Suggests that people may be classified on the basis of their scores along two dimensions: empathizing (E) and systemizing (S)

| ?

Eysenck Personality Questionnaire

| Assesses the personality traits

| 1985

Hare Psychopathy Checklist

| Psychopath presence

| 1970s

Herrmann Brain Dominance Instrument (HBDI)

| Thinking preferences in people

| 1982

HEXACO model of personality structure Personality Inventory

| Personality structure is a six-dimensional model of human personality

| 2004

Holland Codes (RIASEC) (Personality-occupation matching)

| A theory of careers and vocational choice based upon personality types.

| 1990s

Inwald Personality Inventory

| Personality inventory primarily used to screen applicants for high-risk positions such as police candidates.

| 1980

International Personality Item Pool (IPIP)

| A public domain collection of items for use in personality tests.

| N/A

Keirsey Temperament Sorter

| Self-assessed personality questionnaire designed to help people better understand themselves.

| ?

Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory (MMPI)

| The most widely used and researched standardized psychometric test of adult personality and psychopathology.

| 1943

Millon Clinical Multiaxial Inventory (MCMI)

| A psychological assessment tool intended to provide information on psychopathology

| 1969

Myers–Briggs Type Indicator (MBTI)

| A psychometric questionnaire measuring psychological preferences in how most people perceive the world and make decisions, based on Carl Jung's four principal psychological functions of how humans experience the world – sensation, intuition, feeling, and thinking.

| 1921

Newcastle Personality Assessor (NPA)

| A personality test designed to measure the test-taker's personality on five dimensions: Extroversion, Neuroticism, Conscientious, Agreeableness, and Openness.

| ?

Revised NEO Personality Inventory

| A psychological personality inventory

| 1990

Robin Hood Morality Test

| A simple psychology test

| ?

Rorschach inkblot test

| A psychological test in which subjects' perceptions of inkblots are recorded and then analyzed using psychological interpretation, complex algorithms, or both.

| 1960s

Sokanu Interests, Personality, and Preferences Inventory

| A psychological inventory used in career counseling and employee selection

|2013

Student Adaptation to College Questionnaire

|A questionnaire to assess the adaptation of freshmen to college. Used to reduce adaptation problems and drop-outs

|1987

Sixteen Personality Factor Questionnaire or 16PF Questionnaire (16PF)

| A multiple-choice personality questionnaire which was developed over several decades of research by Raymond B. Cattell

| 1940s

Swedish Universities Scales of Personality

| A personality test based on the older Karolinska Scales of Personality (KSP)

| ?

Taylor–Johnson Temperament Analysis

| A personality test designed to measure nine common personality traits for the assessment of individual adjustment.

| 1941

Temperament and Character Inventory

| An inventory for personality traits devised by Cloninger

| ?

Thematic Apperception Test

| A projective psychological test

| 1930s

Thomas–Kilmann Conflict Mode Instrument

| A psychological personality inventory

| early 1970s

True Colors (personality) Test

| A personality profiling system created by Don Lowry

| 1979

Woodworth Personal Data Sheet

| Commonly cited as the first personality test

| WWI

Pure-mathematical tests

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! Description

! Year

Fermat primality test

| A probabilistic test to determine whether a number is probable prime.

| 2001

Miller–Rabin primality test

| Determines whether a given number is prime.

| ?

Primality test

| Determines whether an input number is prime.

| ?

Skills assessment tests

Language tests

  • IELTS (International English Language Testing System)
  • iTEP (International Test of English Proficiency)
  • TEFL (Teaching English as a Foreign Language)
  • TOEFL (Test of English as a Foreign Language)
  • TOEIC (Test of English for International Communication)
  • TSE (Test of Spoken English)
  • DALF (Test of French Language)

Industrial and manufacturing tests

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! Description

! Year

Acceptance test

| A test conducted to determine if the requirements of a specification or contract are met.

| N/A

Crash test

| A form of destructive testing usually performed in order to ensure safe design standards in crashworthiness

| N/A

Moose test

| Performed to determine how well a certain vehicle evades a suddenly appearing obstacle.

| 1970s

Nondestructive testing (NDT/NDA)

| Analysis techniques used in science and industry to evaluate the properties of a material, component or system without causing damage.

| N/A

Sanity test

| A basic test to quickly evaluate whether a claim or the result of a calculation can possibly be true.

| N/A

Smoke test

| Preliminary testing to reveal simple failures severe enough to reject a prospective software release.

| N/A

Software testing

| An investigation conducted to provide stakeholders with information about the quality of the product or service under test.

| 1979

Stress test

| A form of deliberately intense or thorough testing used to determine the stability of a given system or entity.

| N/A

Unit test

| Software testing method by which individual units of source code are tested to determine whether they are fit for use.

| N/A

Laboratory (non-medical) tests

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! Description

! Year

Marsh test

| Detection of arsenic.

| 1836

Paternity test

| Biological parent–child relationship.

| 1920s

Radiocarbon dating

| Aging organic material.

| 1940s

Legal tests

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! Description

! Year

Berne three-step test

| Standardize possible limitations and exceptions to exclusive rights under their respective national copyright laws.

| 1967

Habitual residence test

| Standard used to determine the law which should be applied to determine a given legal dispute.

| ?

Caroline test

| A 19th-century formulation of customary international law which said that the necessity for preemptive self-defense must be "instant, overwhelming, and leaving no choice of means, and no moment for deliberation."

| ?

Miscellaneous and uncategorized tests

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! Description

! Year

Purity test

| An Internet meme purported to determine the user's degree of innocence in worldly matters.

| 1980s

Nuclear testing

| Determines the effectiveness, yield, and explosive capability of nuclear weapons.

| 1945

Wug test

| Demonstrated that young children possess implicit knowledge of linguistic morphology.

| 1958

See also

References

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