The level of intellectual functioning based on the average for children of the same chronological age. When dealing with severely disabled children, the mental age may be more reflective of levels of ability than the chronological age.
The numerical index of an individual's cognitive development determined by standardized intelligence tests.
an individual's degree of mental development measured in terms of the chronological age of the average individual of corresponding mental ability.
A score devised by Alfred Binet to represent a child's test performance. A child's MA is assessed by determining what mental tasks he can do sucessfully. If he can perform tasks generally performed well by six-year-olds but not tasks generally performed well by seven-year-olds, his MA is six, and so on.
In intelligence testing, the mental level at which a person has arrived compared with their actual, chronological age.
A measure used in psychological testing that expresses an individual's mental attainment in terms of the number of years it takes an average child to reach the same level. Children's mental ages may be greater or lesser than their actual age.(thinking/mind/thoughts, one grows older)
the level of intellectual development as measured by an intelligence test
the average level of mental functioning at a particular age.
The degree of a person's mental development expressed as an age at which the same degree is attained by an average person.
A measured level of cognitive function established by a test of intelligence.
The age for which a given score on a mental ability test is average or normal. The term is most appropriately used at the early age levels where mental growth is rapid.
The level of mental ability, referenced by years/months.
A scale unit proposed by Binet for use in intelligence testing. If an intelligence test is properly standardized, a representative group of children of age 6 should earn an average mental age of 6, those of age 7, a mental age of 7, and so on. A child whose MA is above his or her chronological age (CA) is advanced; one whose MA lags behind is retarded. See also chronological age, intelligence quotient.
Mental age is a controversial concept in psychometrics. It is an intelligence test score, expressed as the chronological age for which a given level of performance is average or typical.
