Assessment is an interesting term.

I know the test I took at work this morning was for my employer's assessment of me, as a potential supervisor, but as it made me examine myself in the process I found it to be unexpectedly interesting. I had to think about the actual ways I would treat various challenging situations, some of which were not really something that I think even could happen to me in real life, but the hypothetical imaginings were a fun challenge anyway. I guess the process of simply putting yourself in hypothetical situations is a reasonably useful practice to engage in from time to time.