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Psychological Test: A Brief History on How it all Begun

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               Around 5,000 years ago, on the country where the Confucian classics and the system of merits and intellect were supposed to be the standard for acquiring a position in the realm. The Chinese first to engineer a systematic though rudimentary form of the first psychological testing, the civil service examination. At its earliest form where it was use for selection process for civil servants to the mapping of brains of the ancient Egyptian civilization and the scientific curiosity over the behavior and the reaction to a stimulus of an individual and the unimaginable tales of trauma and horrors of the Great War, that push the discipline to become a new form of field in science, the psychology. Its roots seem already a long way yet the grand entry of the discipline and become part of the greater body of science is only less than three generations old. From the superficial psychological testing during the ancient times to the objecti...