Disambiguation: mental age
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| Behavioral Science > Encyclopedia of Child Behavior and Development |
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| Academic ability; Intellectual ability; IQ; Mental ability Mental age, often abbreviated MA, is a measure of mental ability as determined by intelligence tests. Mental age (mental level) was developed as a means of measuring a child's mental ability using intelligence tests. The concept was devised... |
| Medicine > Encyclopedia of Clinical Neuropsychology |
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| Age equivalent; Test age Mental age is an estimate of a person's cognitive development derived from raw score performance on intelligence, achievement, or neuropsychological tests. Mental age is most frequently estimated in children, likely due to the emergence and protracted developmental course of... |