mental age
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Hunnam’s take on Gein’s voice is based on information that described him as having a very young mental age and on his mother’s insistence that she wished he’d been born a girl.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 10, 2026
It’s not cute watching and adult man regress to the mental age of a three-year-old.
From Salon ● Mar. 1, 2024
Her mental age was about 5 or 6 years old, her parents said in the claim.
From Fox News ● Jan. 21, 2020
The judges were told the woman's daughter is in her 20s, is 22 weeks pregnant, and has the mental age of a child aged between the age of six and nine.
From BBC ● Jun. 24, 2019
While the mental age tells an individual's intellectual level at a given time, the IQ tells how fast he has progressed.
From Psychology A Study Of Mental Life by Robert S. Woodworth
