mental testing

Definitions of mental testing

1. noun

   any standardized procedure for measuring sensitivity or memory or intelligence or aptitude or personality etc
   synonyms: mental test, psychometric test, test

   types:

   IQ test, intelligence test

   a psychometric test of intelligence

   personality test

   any test that is intended to assess personality

   sub-test

   one of a battery of related tests

   Stanford-Binet test

   revision of the Binet-Simon Scale

   Binet-Simon Scale

   the first intelligence test

   projective device, projective technique, projective test

   any personality test designed to yield information about someone's personality on the basis of their unrestricted response to ambiguous objects or situations

   personality assessment, personality inventory

   a questionnaire that is supposed to yield a description of a person's personality traits

   type of:

   mental measurement

   a generic term used to cover any application of measurement techniques to the quantification of mental functions