Regarding Mental Age, Which of the Following Statements Is TRUE

question 341

Multiple Choice

Regarding mental age, which of the following statements is TRUE?

• A)Mental age is also known as a ratio intelligence quotient.
• B)Mental age tells nothing about whether overall intelligence is high or low.
• C)Mental age is a better measure of intelligence than deviation IQ.
• D)A person's mental age will be lower than his or her chronological age if the person has superior intelligence.

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Definitions:

Standard Deviation

A measure of the amount of variation or dispersion in a set of values.

IQ Tests

Standardized tests designed to measure human intelligence and cognitive abilities in comparison to an age-specific normative population.

Flynn Effect

The observed rise over time in standardized intelligence test scores, thought to reflect changes in environmental factors.

Cohorts

Groups of subjects in a study who share a defining characteristic, typically born at around the same time, but can also refer to groups in experimental designs or demographic studies.