The following is an alphabetized and categorized list of notable tests.
Clinical psychology tests
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! Test
! Description
! Year
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| Beck Depression Inventory
| Measures severity of Depression
| 1961
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| Depression Anxiety Stress Scales
| Isolate and identify aspects of emotional disturbance
| 1965
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Cognitive development tests
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! Test
! Description
! Year
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| Draw-A-Person Test
| Psychological projection test for children
| 1926
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| Knox Cubes
| Nonverbal intelligence test
| 1913
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| Modern Language Aptitude Test
| Foreign language test
|
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| Multiple choice
| Determine the best possible answer from a list.
| 1915
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| Pimsleur Language Aptitude Battery
| Foreign language proficiency attainment predictor.
| 1966
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| Porteus Maze Test
| Measures psychological planning capacity.
| 1914
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Intelligence tests
- 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
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! Test
! Description
! Year
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| Apgar test
| Quickly summarizes the health of newborn children.
| 1952
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| Biopsy
| Cell or tissue sampling for examination.
| ?
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| Blood test
| Blood sample laboratory test.
| ?
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| DNA test
| Genetic diagnosis of vulnerabilities to inherited diseases and more.
| ?
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| Gait Abnormality Rating Scale
| A videotape-based analysis of 16 facets of human gait.
| 1996
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| Glucose Tolerance Test
| Glucose is given and blood samples taken afterward determine how quickly it is cleared from the blood.
| 1923
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| Ishihara colour test
| A color perception test for red-green color deficiencies.
| 1917
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| Liver function test
| Groups of blood tests that give information about the state of a patient's liver
| N/A
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| Lumbar puncture
| Cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) collection to confirm or exclude conditions
| 1891
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| Mantoux test
| Tuberculosis screening tool.
| 1890
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| Pap smear
| Cervical screening used to detect pre-cancerous and cancerous processes in the endocervical canal.
| ?
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| RAST test (radioallergosorbent test)
| Blood test used to determine the substances a subject is allergic to.
| 1974
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| Uhlenhuth test
| Forensic test to determine the species of a blood sample
| 1901
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| Urea Breath Test
| A rapid diagnostic procedure used to identify infections by Helicobacter pylori.
| ?
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| Wassermann test
| An antibody test for syphilis
| ?
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Self tests
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! Test
! Description
! Year
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| Mirror test
| Determines whether a non-human animal possesses the ability of self-recognition
| 1970
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| Sally-Anne test
| Measures a person's social cognitive ability to attribute false beliefs to others.
| 1985
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Statistical tests
- 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
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! Test
! Description
! Year
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| Activity vector analysis (AVA)
| psychometric questionnaire designed to measure four personality factors
| 1942
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| Bem Sex-Role Inventory
| (Gender identification)
| 1974
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| Big Five personality traits
| Five broad domains or dimensions of personality that are used to describe human personality
| 1961
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| 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 “primary emotions” and associated behavioral traits: dominance, influence, steadiness, and conscientiousness.
| 1928
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| The Hand Test
| A projective technique that utilizes ten unbound 3.5 x 4.5 inch cards
| 1983
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| 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)
| ?
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| Eysenck Personality Questionnaire
| Assesses the personality traits
| 1985
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| Hare Psychopathy Checklist
| Psychopath presence
| 1970s
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| Herrmann Brain Dominance Instrument (HBDI)
| Thinking preferences in people
| 1982
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| HEXACO model of personality structure Personality Inventory
| Personality structure is a six-dimensional model of human personality
| 2004
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| Holland Codes (RIASEC) (Personality-occupation matching)
| A theory of careers and vocational choice based upon personality types.
| 1990s
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| Inwald Personality Inventory
| Personality inventory primarily used to screen applicants for high-risk positions such as police candidates.
| 1980
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| International Personality Item Pool (IPIP)
| A public domain collection of items for use in personality tests.
| N/A
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| Keirsey Temperament Sorter
| Self-assessed personality questionnaire designed to help people better understand themselves.
| ?
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| Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory (MMPI)
| The most widely used and researched standardized psychometric test of adult personality and psychopathology.
| 1943
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| Millon Clinical Multiaxial Inventory (MCMI)
| A psychological assessment tool intended to provide information on psychopathology
| 1969
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| 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
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| Newcastle Personality Assessor (NPA)
| A personality test designed to measure the test-taker's personality on five dimensions: Extroversion, Neuroticism, Conscientious, Agreeableness, and Openness.
| ?
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| Revised NEO Personality Inventory
| A psychological personality inventory
| 1990
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| Robin Hood Morality Test
| A simple psychology test
| ?
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| 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
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|Sokanu Interests, Personality, and Preferences Inventory
| A psychological inventory used in career counseling and employee selection
|2013
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|Structure of Temperament Questionnaire (STQ)
| A test measuring 12 biologically-based (temperament) traits describing universal formal-dynamical aspects of behaviour
|1989
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|Student Adaptation to College Questionnaire
|A questionnaire to assess the adaptation of freshmen to college. Used to reduce adaptation problems and drop-outs
|1987
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| 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
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| Swedish Universities Scales of Personality
| A personality test based on the older Karolinska Scales of Personality (KSP)
| ?
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| Taylor–Johnson Temperament Analysis
| A personality test designed to measure nine common personality traits for the assessment of individual adjustment.
| 1941
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| Temperament and Character Inventory
| An inventory for personality traits devised by Cloninger
| ?
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| Thematic Apperception Test
| A projective psychological test
| 1930s
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| Thomas–Kilmann Conflict Mode Instrument
| A psychological personality inventory
| early 1970s
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| True Colors (personality) Test
| A personality profiling system created by Don Lowry
| 1979
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| Woodworth Personal Data Sheet
| Commonly cited as the first personality test
| WWI
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Pure-mathematical tests
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! Test
! Description
! Year
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| Fermat primality test
| A probabilistic test to determine whether a number is probable prime.
| 2001
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| Miller–Rabin primality test
| Determines whether a given number is prime.
| ?
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| Primality test
| Determines whether an input number is prime.
| ?
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Skills assessment tests
- 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
- 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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! 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
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| Crash test
| A form of destructive testing usually performed in order to ensure safe design standards in crashworthiness
| N/A
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| Moose test
| Performed to determine how well a certain vehicle evades a suddenly appearing obstacle.
| 1970s
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| 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
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| Sanity test
| A basic test to quickly evaluate whether a claim or the result of a calculation can possibly be true.
| N/A
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| Smoke test
| Preliminary testing to reveal simple failures severe enough to reject a prospective software release.
| N/A
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| Software testing
| An investigation conducted to provide stakeholders with information about the quality of the product or service under test.
| 1979
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| Stress test
| A form of deliberately intense or thorough testing used to determine the stability of a given system or entity.
| N/A
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| Unit test
| Software testing method by which individual units of source code are tested to determine whether they are fit for use.
| N/A
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Laboratory (non-medical) tests
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! Test
! Description
! Year
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| Marsh test
| Detection of arsenic.
| 1836
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| Paternity test
| Biological parent–child relationship.
| 1920s
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| Radiocarbon dating
| Aging organic material.
| 1940s
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Legal tests
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! 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
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| Habitual residence test
| Standard used to determine the law which should be applied to determine a given legal dispute.
| ?
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| 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."
| ?
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Miscellaneous and uncategorized tests
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! 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
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| Nuclear testing
| Determines the effectiveness, yield, and explosive capability of nuclear weapons.
| 1945
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| Wug test
| Demonstrated that young children possess implicit knowledge of linguistic morphology.
| 1958
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See also
- List of standardized tests in the United States