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The following is an alphabetized and categorized list of notable tests.
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Test | Description | Year |
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Beck Depression Inventory | Measures severity of Depression | 1961 |
DASS (psychology) | Isolate and identify aspects of emotional disturbance | 1965 |
Test | Description | Year |
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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 |
Test | Description | Year |
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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 | ? |
Test | Description | Year |
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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 |
Test | Description | Year |
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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 |
Test | Description | Year |
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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. | ? |
Test | Description | Year |
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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 |
Test | Description | Year |
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Marsh test | Detection of arsenic. | 1836 |
Paternity test | Biological parent–child relationship. | 1920s |
Radiocarbon dating | Aging organic material. | 1940s |
Test | Description | Year |
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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." | ? |
Test | Description | Year |
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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 |