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Big Five Personality Test

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Measures five key dimensions of personality: openness, conscientiousness, extraversion, agreeableness, and neuroticism. Participants rate how much they agree with statements on a Likert scale.

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MMPI (Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory)

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Assesses personality traits and psychopathology. It's helpful for diagnosing mental disorders and consists of true/false questions.

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IQ Test (Intelligence Quotient Test)

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Measures a variety of cognitive abilities and provides a score that aims to serve as a measure of an individual's intellectual abilities and potential. It's often a mix of verbal and nonverbal assessments.

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Rorschach Inkblot Test

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A projective psychological test consisting of 10 inkblots printed on cards. It is used to assess a person's personality characteristics and emotional functioning.

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TAT (Thematic Apperception Test)

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A projective test that involves describing ambiguous scenes. It's used to assess a person's patterns of thought, attitudes, observational capacity, and emotional responses to stimuli.

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Beck Depression Inventory

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Measures the presence and degree of depression in adolescents and adults. It uses a self-report rating inventory that measures characteristic attitudes and symptoms of depression.

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Stanford-Binet Intelligence Scale

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An individually administered intelligence test that was revised from the original Binet-Simon Scale. It measures five factors of cognitive ability.

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Wechsler Adult Intelligence Scale (WAIS)

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Designed to measure intelligence in adults and older adolescents. It assesses both verbal IQ and performance IQ through various subtests.

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Autism Spectrum Rating Scales (ASRS)

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Designed to measure behaviors associated with the autism spectrum disorder. The test uses rating scales that are completed by parents, teachers, and/or clinicians.

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Bender Visual Motor Gestalt Test

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Assesses visual-motor integration through a series of drawing tasks. The test is used to identify developmental disorders in children and neurological impairments in all ages.

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Stroop Test

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Measures selective attention, cognitive flexibility, and processing speed by asking participants to name the color of the word being shown, which can sometimes be incongruent with the word itself (e.g., 'red' written in blue ink).

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Trail Making Test

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Assesses visual attention and task switching by having the participant connect a sequence of 25 dots as quickly as possible while still maintaining accuracy.

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GRE Psychology Subject Test

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A standardized test that assesses the test-taker's knowledge and understanding of concepts, historical trends, and research methods within the field of psychology.

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MCAT Psychological, Social, and Biological Foundations of Behavior Section

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A section of the MCAT that tests knowledge of psychological concepts as well as biology and sociology principles that provide a solid foundation for learning in medical school about the behavioral and socio-cultural determinants of health.

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Myers-Briggs Type Indicator (MBTI)

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A personality test that sorts people into 16 distinct personality types based on four dichotomies: introversion/extroversion, sensing/intuition, thinking/feeling, and judging/perceiving.

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Beck Anxiety Inventory

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Measures the severity of a person's anxiety. It consists of 21 self-reported items and is designed for individuals who are at least 17 years of age.

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Vineland Adaptive Behavior Scales

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Measures the personal and social skills of individuals from birth through adulthood. It assesses the areas of communication, daily living skills, socialization, and motor skills.

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Hamilton Rating Scale for Depression

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Assesses the severity of depression in individuals already diagnosed with the disorder. The scale includes items about mood, guilt, suicide ideation, insomnia, agitation or retardation, anxiety, weight loss, and somatic symptoms.

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Positive and Negative Syndrome Scale (PANSS)

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Measures the symptomatology of schizophrenia. It divides symptoms into three scales: positive symptoms, negative symptoms, and general psychopathology.

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Children’s Depression Inventory (CDI)

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Assesses depressive symptoms in children age 7 to 17. It's a self-report scale that has items which assess emotional, cognitive, and behavioral signs of depression.

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Conners Comprehensive Behavior Rating Scales (CBRS)

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Assesses a wide spectrum of behaviors, emotions, academic, and social problems in children aged 6 to 18. It's used to identify conditions like ADHD, Oppositional Defiant Disorder, and Conduct Disorder.

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WISC (Wechsler Intelligence Scale for Children)

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An intelligence test for children aged 6 to 16 that assesses a child's intellectual ability. It's an individually administered test that includes various subtests to measure different intellectual abilities.

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Raven's Progressive Matrices

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Nonverbal group test typically used to measure abstract reasoning and regarded as a nonverbal estimate of fluid intelligence.

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Kohlberg's Stages of Moral Development Assessment

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Assesses moral reasoning based on responses to moral dilemmas. Kohlberg proposed six stages of moral development, which are organized into three levels: pre-conventional, conventional, and post-conventional.

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Achenbach System of Empirically Based Assessment (ASEBA)

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Provides an integrated system of multi-informant assessment by gathering data from parents, teachers, and the child himself to assess emotional and behavioral problems.

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