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Mooney face test

Mooney face test proper noun: a test of a person's ability to form coherent mental pictures with very little visual information, involving identifying the features in simplified two-tone pictures of faces and distinguishing real faces from false ones.

Proper noun

Mooney face test

  1. (cognitive studies) A test of a person's ability to form coherent mental pictures with very little visual information, involving identifying the features in simplified two-tone pictures of faces and distinguishing real faces from false ones.

Origin of Mooney face test

Developed by Craig M. Mooney, whose results were published in 1957.

Questions about Mooney face test

What does Mooney face test mean?
Mooney face test means a test of a person's ability to form coherent mental pictures with very little visual information, involving identifying the features in simplified two-tone pictures of faces and distinguishing real faces from false ones.
What part of speech is Mooney face test?
Mooney face test is a proper noun.

Words near Mooney face test in the dictionary

  1. moonet
  2. moonets
  3. moonette
  4. moonettes
  5. mooney
  6. Mooney face test
  7. Mooney Mooney
  8. Mooney Mooney Creek
  9. mooneye
  10. mooneyes
  11. Mooneyham

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