mental age
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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
Supreme Court decided in 2002 that intellectually disabled killers should not be executed, concluding that it was cruel and unusual to put to death a person with the mental age of a child.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 24, 2018
The test correlates well with mental age, but for some reason not apparent it is passed by a larger percentage of high-school pupils than unschooled adults of the same mental level.
From The Measurement of Intelligence An Explanation of and a Complete Guide for the Use of the Stanford Revision and Extension of the Binet-Simon Intelligence Scale by Ellwood Patterson Cubberley
