mental age
Example Sentences
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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
At 26, Katelyn has an estimated mental age of 8 and a long list of diagnosed conditions.
From Washington Times • Jun. 3, 2017
A single test affects mental age only to the extent of two months, and the chances of two such injustices occurring with the same child are very slight.
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
