MENTAL TESTING

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does mental testing mean? 

• MENTAL TESTING (noun)
  The noun MENTAL TESTING has 1 sense:

1. any standardized procedure for measuring sensitivity or memory or intelligence or aptitude or personality etc

  Familiarity information: MENTAL TESTING used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• MENTAL TESTING (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Any standardized procedure for measuring sensitivity or memory or intelligence or aptitude or personality etc

Classified under:

Nouns denoting acts or actions

Synonyms:

mental test; mental testing; psychometric test; test

Context example:

the test was standardized on a large sample of students

Hypernyms ("mental testing" is a kind of...):

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

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "mental testing"):

intelligence test; IQ 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)