Mental Age (noun) Definition, Meaning & Examples

noun Psychology.
  1. the level of native mental ability or capacity of an individual, usually as determined by an intelligence test, in relation to the chronological age of the average individual at this level: a ten-year-old child with the mental age of a twelve-year-old; a mental age of twelve.
noun
  1. the mental ability of a child, expressed in years and based on a comparison of his test performance with the performance of children with a range of chronological ages
Mental Age (noun) Definition, Meaning & Examples

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