CHILD DEVELOPMENT PEDAGOGY

GROWTH DEVELOPMENT CHILD

MEASUREMENT OF INTELLIGENCE

Question [CLICK ON ANY CHOICE TO KNOW THE RIGHT ANSWER]
Mental Age is ____
A
how mature a person acts socially.
B
a person’s age compared to adults
C
the level at which a person solves problems
D
the age a person acts around their friends
Explanation: 

Detailed explanation-1: -Mental age refers to the calculation of intelligence that shows how individual child is performing according to their age. It is based on intellectual development. The concept of ‘Mental age’ was introduced by Alfred Binet, a French psychologist.

Detailed explanation-2: -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-3: -Mental age refers to the calculation of intelligence that shows how an individual child is performing according to their age. It is based on intellectual development. Mental age is used to measure the ‘Intelligence Quotient’ which is commonly known as IQ.

Detailed explanation-4: -In fact, it was originally thought that the average mental age of adults was 16-but was later found to be about 13.5. So, a person who’s 40 years old may have a mental age of less than 30, or a person who’s 30 may have a mental age of 60 years old.

Detailed explanation-5: -Mental age is based on your intellectual development, while chronological age is based on the calendar date on which you were born. If your chronological age and your mental age are the same, you are said to be of average intelligence.

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