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

Katy had a young mental age and had suffered from anxiety since around the time of her father John's sudden death.

From BBC • Mar. 6, 2021

Her mental age was about 5 or 6 years old, her parents said in the claim.

From Fox News • Jan. 21, 2020

Nora had poor motor skills and needed help to walk and her mental age was about 5 or 6 years old, her parents’ said in the claim.

From Washington Times • Jan. 21, 2020

Although she is not yet 9 years old and is completing the fourth grade, she is still about a grade below where she belongs by mental age.

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 Cubberley, Ellwood Patterson