List of tests
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The following is an alphabetized and categorized list of notable tests.
Clinical psychology tests
[edit]| Test | Description | Year |
|---|---|---|
| Beck Depression Inventory | Measures severity of Depression | 1961 |
| DASS (psychology) | Isolate and identify aspects of emotional disturbance | 1965 |
Cognitive development tests
[edit]| 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 | — |
| 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
[edit]- Cattell Culture Fair
- Kohs block
- Woodcock–Johnson Tests of Cognitive Abilities
- Multidimensional Aptitude Battery II
- Leiter International Performance Scale
- Miller Analogies Test
- Otis–Lennon School Ability Test
- Raven's Progressive Matrices
- Stanford–Binet Intelligence Scales
- Sternberg Triarchic Abilities Test
- Turing test
- Wechsler Adult Intelligence Scale
- Wechsler Intelligence Scale for Children
- Wechsler Preschool and Primary Scale of Intelligence
- Wonderlic Test
- Iq test
- Trust metric
Medical tests
[edit]| 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
[edit]| 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
[edit]- Ames test
- Chi-squared test
- Draize test
- Dixon's Q test
- F-test
- Fisher's exact test
- GRIM test
- Kolmogorov–Smirnov test
- Kuiper's test
- Likelihood-ratio test
- Median test
- Mann–Whitney U test
- Pearson's chi-squared test
- Rank product test
- Shapiro–Wilk test
- Statistical hypothesis testing
- Student's t-test
- Tukey's range test
- Tukey's test of additivity
- Welch's t test
Personality tests
[edit]| 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) | |
| DISC assessment | A behavior assessment tool based on the DISC theory of psychologist William Moulton Marston, which centers on four[1] “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 |
| Forte Communication Style Profile | A quantitatively validated communication style profiling instrument. | 1978 |
| 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
[edit]| Test | 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
[edit]- Student assessment test
- Scantron test
- Bourdon–Wiersma test
- Graduate Management Admission Test
- Graduate Record Examination (GRE)
- GRE Physics Test
- HESI exam
- Japanese-Language Proficiency Test
- Medical College Admission Test
- SAT college entrance test
- Screen test
Language tests
[edit]- PTE-A (Pearson Test of English – Academic)
- VET (Versant English Test)
- 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
[edit]| Test | 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
[edit]| Test | Description | Year |
|---|---|---|
| Marsh test | Detection of arsenic. | 1836 |
| Paternity test | Biological parent–child relationship. | 1920s |
| Radiocarbon dating | Aging organic material. | 1940s |
Legal tests
[edit]| Test | 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
[edit]| Test | 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
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References
[edit]- ^ "Science behind DiSC®". Discprofile.com.