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

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Clinical psychology tests

TestDescriptionYear
Beck Depression Inventory Measures severity of Depression1961
DASS (psychology) Isolate and identify aspects of emotional disturbance1965

Cognitive development tests

TestDescriptionYear
Draw-A-Person Test Psychological projection test for children1926
Knox Cubes Nonverbal intelligence test1913
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

Medical tests

TestDescriptionYear
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 liverN/A
Lumbar puncture Cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) collection to confirm or exclude conditions1891
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 sample1901
Urea Breath Test A rapid diagnostic procedure used to identify infections by Helicobacter pylori. ?
Wassermann test An antibody test for syphilis ?

Self tests

TestDescriptionYear
Mirror test Determines whether a non-human animal possesses the ability of self-recognition1970
Sally-Anne test Measures a person's social cognitive ability to attribute false beliefs to others.1985

Statistical tests

Personality tests

TestDescriptionYear
Activity vector analysis (AVA) psychometric questionnaire designed to measure four personality factors1942
Bem Sex-Role Inventory (Gender identification)1974
Big Five personality traits Five broad domains or dimensions of personality that are used to describe human personality1961
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 cards1983
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 traits1985
Forte Communication Style ProfileA quantitatively validated communication style profiling instrument.1978
Hare Psychopathy Checklist Psychopath presence1970s
Herrmann Brain Dominance Instrument (HBDI)Thinking preferences in people1982
HEXACO model of personality structure Personality InventoryPersonality structure is a six-dimensional model of human personality2004
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 psychopathology1969
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 inventory1990
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 selection2013
Student Adaptation to College Questionnaire A questionnaire to assess the adaptation of freshmen to college. Used to reduce adaptation problems and drop-outs1987
Sixteen Personality Factor Questionnaire or 16PF Questionnaire (16PF)A multiple-choice personality questionnaire which was developed over several decades of research by Raymond B. Cattell1940s
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 test1930s
Thomas–Kilmann Conflict Mode Instrument A psychological personality inventoryearly 1970s
True Colors (personality) TestA personality profiling system created by Don Lowry1979
Woodworth Personal Data Sheet Commonly cited as the first personality testWWI

Pure-mathematical tests

TestDescriptionYear
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

Industrial and manufacturing tests

TestDescriptionYear
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

TestDescriptionYear
Marsh test Detection of arsenic.1836
Paternity test Biological parent–child relationship.1920s
Radiocarbon dating Aging organic material.1940s
TestDescriptionYear
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

TestDescriptionYear
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

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