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
Sheila's last recorded child assessment the following April judged her to be functioning at the mental age of a child of 18 months.
From BBC • Jan. 1, 2024
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
For example, the child whose mental age was, say, two years below normal, and who was enrolled in a class with children about two years younger than himself, was often graded “average” in intelligence.
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
