Imagine that you are working with a pair of 11-year-old males who were born on the same calendar date. You notice that one boy is intellectually gifted and can read and do math at a college level. His intellectual capabilities are that of a 19-year-old, while the other 11-year-old has intellectual capabilities that an average 11-year-old would have. This is what we mean by mental age.
Mental age is a measure of an individual's mental attainment based on the chronological age in which an average individual reaches that same level of attainment. For example, the intellectually gifted male above has reached the level of mental attainment that we would expect a person to reach at the chronological age of 19, so his mental age is 19.
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. For example, if an 11-year-old reaches the same level of intellectual development that we would expect an 11-year-old to reach, we can say that he is average. Gifted children have mental ages that are higher than their chronological age. For children who have mental retardation or some other type of intellectual impairment, often their chronological age is much higher than their mental age.
Imagine that you are working with a pair of 11-year-old males who were born on the same calendar date. You notice that one boy is intellectually gifted and can read and do math at a college level. His intellectual capabilities are that of a 19-year-old, while the other 11-year-old has intellectual capabilities that an average 11-year-old would have. This is what we mean by mental age.Mental age is a measure of an individual's mental attainment based on the chronological age in which an average individual reaches that same level of attainment. For example, the intellectually gifted male above has reached the level of mental attainment that we would expect a person to reach at the chronological age of 19, so his mental age is 19.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. For example, if an 11-year-old reaches the same level of intellectual development that we would expect an 11-year-old to reach, we can say that he is average. Gifted children have mental ages that are higher than their chronological age. For children who have mental retardation or some other type of intellectual impairment, often their chronological age is much higher than their mental age.
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