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Online Psychology Tests
1. [|The Stroop Test]. A fun test that measures how fast and flexible a thinker you are by using color-coded words.

2. [|The Worst Sounds]. Grab your headset and take this online sound test to find out which sounds bother you the most. You’ll hear snoring, crying babies and nails on the chalkboard.

3. [|Personality Test]. Check out the “I Just Get Myself” personality test. It comprises just 40 easy questions but delivers a surprisingly insightful (at least I thought so) assessment of your personality traits.

4. [|Memory Test]. After a series of numbers appears on the screen, click on a keypad to test your memory.

5. [|Reaction to Faces.] This test allows you to rate your preference for different facial characteristics. Another test, [|PerceptionLab], measures your reaction to different faces.

6. [|Personal Biases]. Test your implicit biases about race and other issues.

And for even more insight, take PsychCentral’s own [|Sanity Score quiz], which is designed to assess aspects of your mental health, including your risk for depression, anxiety and other emotional disorders.

For additional tests and more information about online psychology assessments, read the full PsychCentral article by [|clicking here].

[|Project implicit] Psychologists understand that people may not say what's on their minds either because they are //unwilling// or because they are //unable// to do so. For example, if asked "How much do you smoke?" a smoker who smokes 4 packs a day may purposely report smoking only 2 packs a day because they are embarrassed to admit the correct number. Or, the smoker may simply not answer the question, regarding it as a private matter. (These are examples of being //unwilling// to report a known answer.) But it is also possible that a smoker who smokes 4 packs a day may report smoking only 2 packs because they honestly believe they only smoke about 2 packs a day. (Unknowingly giving an incorrect answer is sometimes called self-deception; this illustrates being //unable// to give the desired answer). The unwilling-unable distinction is like the difference between purposely hiding something from others and unconsciously hiding something from yourself. The Implicit Association Test makes it possible to penetrate both of these types of hiding. The IAT measures //implicit// attitudes and beliefs that people are either unwilling or unable to report.

[|magicalmemorytour.com] How have the Beatles shaped people’s lives? What kind of role do the Beatles and their music play in our personal histories and can this help increase our understanding of human memory? This study aims to answer these questions – and we need your help to do it. We’d like you to think about an event from your own life that involved something to do with the Beatles. We are interested in how things the Beatles did - songs, movies, news stories, and so on - intersect with our own lives through our memories. We want you to give us as much information as you can so that we can analyse your memory alongside other people’s. One of the interesting discoveries is going to be the extent to which different songs/albums/news stories evoke strong memories.