Psychological age

By Bharti
Introduction

• Psychological age is how old one feels, acts, and

behaves, and is thus not necessarily equal to
chronological age, which is age since birth. A person can
therefore have a psychological age that exceeds their
chronological age if they are mature or at least feel older
than they really are.
Early theories

• During much of the 19th century, theories of intelligence

focused on measuring the size of human skulls.
Anthropologists well known for their attempts to correlate
cranial size and capacity with intellectual potential were
Samuel Morton and Paul Broca.
Modern theories

• The limitations of the Stanford-Binet caused David

Wechsler to publish the Wechsler Adult Intelligence Scale
(WAIS) in 1955. These two tests were split into two
different ones for children. The WAIS-IV is the known
current publication of the test for adults. The reason for
this test was to score the individual and compare it to
others of the same age group rather than to score by
chronological age and mental age. The fixed average is
100 and the normal range is between 85 and 115. This is
a standard currently used and is used in the Stanford-
Binet test as well.
Mental age and IQ
• Originally, the ratio of the mental age to the chronological age was used to
compute the intelligence quotient, or IQ. The formula was:

• IQ = Mental age ÷ Physical age × 100

• No matter what the child's chronological age, if the mental age is the
same as the chronological age, then the IQ would equal 100.Modern
intelligence tests, such as the current Stanford-Binet test, no longer
compute the IQ using that formula. Instead, the results of several different
standardized tests are combined to derive a score.
The nature of intelligence
• Measures such as mental age and IQ have limitations. Binet did not
believe these measures represented a single, permanent, and inborn level
of intelligence. He stressed that intelligence overall is too broad to be
represented by a single number. It is influenced by many factors such as
the individual's background, and it changes over time.

• Throughout much of the 20th century, many psychologists believed

intelligence was fixed and hereditary while others believed other factors
would affect intelligence.
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