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Meaning of "mental age" in the English dictionary

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PRONUNCIATION OF MENTAL AGE

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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF MENTAL AGE

noun
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determiner
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Mental age is a noun.
A noun is a type of word the meaning of which determines reality. Nouns provide the names for all things: people, objects, sensations, feelings, etc.

WHAT DOES MENTAL AGE MEAN IN ENGLISH?

Mental age

Mental age is a concept in relation to intelligence, expressed as the age at which a child is performing intellectually. The mental age of the child that is tested is the same as the average age at which normal children achieve a particular score. However, a mental age result on an intelligence test does not mean that children function at their "mental age level" in all aspects of life. For instance, a gifted six-year-old child can still in some ways function as a three-year-old child. Mental age was once considered a controversial concept.

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE MENTAL AGE

mental
mental arithmetic
mental block
mental cruelty
mental defective
mental deficiency
mental disability
mental disorder
mental handicap
mental healer
mental healing
mental health
mental health care
mental home
mental illness
mental impairment
mental lexicon
mental reservation
mental retardation
mental strain

WORDS THAT END LIKE MENTAL AGE

bronze age
coming of age
computer age
dark age
educational age
electronic age
golden age
ice age
in this day and age
information age
iron age
middle age
of age
old age
reading age
retirement age
school age
space age
the atomic age
under age

Synonyms and antonyms of mental age in the English dictionary of synonyms

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Translation of «mental age» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF MENTAL AGE

Find out the translation of mental age to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.
The translations of mental age from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «mental age» in English.

Translator English - Chinese

心理年龄
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

edad mental
570 millions of speakers

English

mental age
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

मानसिक उम्र
380 millions of speakers
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Translator English - Arabic

العمر العقلي
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

умственный возраст
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

idade mental
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

মানসিক বয়স
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

âge mental
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

Umur mental
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

geistige Alter
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

精神年齢
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

정신 연령
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Umur mental
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

tuổi trí tuệ
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

மன வயது
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

मानसिक वय
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

akıl yaşı
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

età mentale
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

wiek umysłowy
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

розумовий вік
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

varsta mentala
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

νοητική ηλικία
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

geestelike ouderdom
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

mental ålder
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

mental alder
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of mental age

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TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «MENTAL AGE»

The term «mental age» is regularly used and occupies the 84.776 position in our list of most widely used terms in the English dictionary.
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FREQUENCY OF USE OF THE TERM «MENTAL AGE» OVER TIME

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Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about mental age

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10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «MENTAL AGE»

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Mental Retardation: Nature, Cause, and Management
years and months of mental age. A lO-year-old with an IQ of 60, for example, would have a mental age of 6 years and 1 month. In effect, this lO-year-old is solving problems much more like a 6-year-old than like a child of his own age.
George S. Baroff, J. Gregory Olley, 2014
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The Necessary Mental Age for Beginning Reading
506 THE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL JOURNAL [March mental-age categories except the two highest fell below a reading grade of 1.50. Of the pupils with a mental age above 6.5, 8 per cent achieved a reading grade below 1.50, 16 per cent ...
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Introduction to Psychology: Gateways to Mind and Behavior
Mental age is a good measure of actual ability. But mental age says nothing about Whether overall intelligence is high or low compared with other people of the same age. To find out what a particular mental age means, we must relate mental ...
Dennis Coon, John Mitterer, 2008
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"We're People First": The Social and Emotional Lives of ...
Before proceeding to this discussion, however, I introduce two concepts that appear frequently in the following pages: mental age and the two-group theory of the etiology of mental retardation. MENTAL AGE Mental age is a measure of ...
Elaine E. Castles, 1996
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Mental and Physical Traits of a Thousand Gifted Children
Table 48 Coefficients of Correlation Between Mental Age and Height and Weight of 397 Gifted Children -Age- Boys io n 12 13 N 35 68 63 50 Mental age-height, r =.162 ±.111 .154 + 080 .096 + 084 .329 + 085 N 35 67 61 50 Mental age-weight,  ...
Lewis Madison Terman, 1981
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Elements Of Educational Psychology
Mental age, often expressed as M. A. represents the level of mental development attained by a child, as expressed in terms of the average mental development of children of a given age. The concept of mental age is an important contribution ...
Bhatia, H. R., 1973
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A Mathematics Sampler: Topics for the Liberal Arts
To be standardized, these tests are administered to a large random sample of children of every age group, and the mean score in each age group is used to represent the mental age. Thus, a child whose individual test score matches the ...
William P. Berlinghoff, Kerry E. Grant, Dale Skrien, 2001
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Psychology: A Journey
Thus, to estimate a child's intelligence we need to know both her mental age ( average intellectual performance) and her chronological age (age in years). Mental age is based on the level of age-ranked questions a person can answer.
Dennis Coon, John Mitterer, 2007
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International Review of Research in Mental Retardation: ...
We generally favored studies that matched on the basis of some estimate of Mental Age rather than Chronological Age. In some ways, this choice reflects the assumptions that guide our own research. More specifically, we tend to include ...
‎2003
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Genes, Brain and Development: The Neurocognition of Genetic ...
The hypothesized differences in restructuring strategies in relation to mental age were confirmed. For four of the six tasks, we found a significant difference in strategy profiles that was related to mental age. Greater increases in strategy use  ...
Marcia A. Barnes, 2010

10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «MENTAL AGE»

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Dad dancing, the number one way to embarrass children - Telegraph
Most people over 40 feel on average 20 per cent younger - meaning a 40-year-old "dad dancer" has a mental age of 32. And the research ... «Telegraph.co.uk, Jul 15»
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Dyslexic Dunfermline dad hounded over £18,000 tax bill …
A DUNFERMLINE dad with serious learning difficulties and the mental age of a primary school child was chased for a tax bill worth almost ... «Dunfermline Press, Jul 15»
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Postcard from New York to Chicago : The Sound and the Fury …
... year-old man with a mental age of three who belongs to a declining aristocratic Southern family which includes his hyperchondriacal mother, ... «Daily Review, Jul 15»
4
Taking on Death Row
Many were severely mentally ill or had the mental age of children. “Meeting these clients reminded me of my original motivation for pursuing ... «The Mancunion, Jul 15»
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Won't let land bill sail through: Rahul | CelebCafe.org
... representatives at a packed Birla auditorium, he said the physical age is not a criterion for party workers but what matters is their mental age. «Celebrity Cafe - Entertainment News, Jul 15»
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Every home needs a child's advocate
Additionally, the only time their young are left to fend for themselves is when they have achieved both that chronological and mental age. «Jamaica Observer, Jul 15»
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Judge hears arguments in suit stemming from 2012 Bibb school …
Although the girl had a chronological age of 16 at the time, her mental age was 9. She suffers from schizophrenia, “problematic anxiety” and ... «Macon Telegraph, Jul 15»
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No retirement age in Congress: Rahul
... representatives at a packed Birla auditorium, he said the physical age is not a criterion for party workers but what matters is their mental age. «Web India, Jul 15»
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HMRC criticised for "outrageous" treatment of dyslexic painter
Mr Clark, of Whinniehill Terrace, Carnock, suffers from crushing dyslexia and his learning difficulties are so severe he has the mental age of a 12-year-old. «Herald Scotland, Jul 15»
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Judge: HMRC pursuit of vulnerable man 'outrageous'
Mr Clark, of Carnock, suffers from dyslexia and his learning difficulties are so severe he has the mental age of a 12-year-old. Working part-time ... «Scotsman, Jul 15»

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