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Question [CLICK ON ANY CHOICE TO KNOW THE RIGHT ANSWER]
____ When using the Binet-Simon scale, what is meant by “Mental Age”?
A
How old the child is physically
B
The child’s ultimate predicted capacity for knowledge
C
How old the child will be before he/she reaches average intelligence
D
The intellectual level at which the child is functioning
Explanation: 

Detailed explanation-1: -mental age, intelligence test score, expressed as the chronological age for which a given level of performance is average or typical. An individual’s mental age is then divided by his chronological age and multiplied by 100, yielding an intelligence quotient (IQ).

Detailed explanation-2: -The Stanford-Binet Intelligence Scale was first developed in 1905 by French psychologist Alfred Binet and his collaborator Theodore Simon to test the attention, memory, and verbal skill of schoolchildren and thereby measure their intelligence. It was revised in 1908 and 1911.

Detailed explanation-3: -Mental age is the age level of an individual’s mental ability. It is based on the age in which it takes an average individual to reach that same level of mental attainment. Mental age is usually measured by standardized intelligence tests.

Detailed explanation-4: –The Binet-Simon scale expressed a child’s score in terms of “mental age".

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