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

He has the mental age of a baby of around six months old.

From BBC • Nov. 2, 2022

His lawyer, M. Ravi, said Nagaenthran, now 33, “could possibly have a mental age below 18” and that the disability doesn’t allow him to understand or appreciate deterrence.

From Seattle Times • Nov. 4, 2021

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

From Fox News • Jan. 21, 2020

School children have a certain advantage in it over older persons of the same mental age whose school experience is less recent.

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