Which of the following is true for the mental age of a person?
A. It is based on the average intelligence of people of all ages.
B. It is based on what most children at a particular age level can do.
C. It is based on how the average person performs on a given task.
D. It is the average of the IQs of all people of a particular age.
Answer: B
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a. reinforcement b. successive approximations c. extinction d. all of these
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