mental ability
31mental capacity — index apprehension (perception), competence (sanity), comprehension, intellect, intelligence (intellect) …
32mental age — mental ages N COUNT: usu sing A person s mental age is the age which they are considered to have reached in their ability to think or reason …
33mental test — n any of various standardized procedures applied to an individual in order to ascertain ability or evaluate behavior in comparison with other individuals or with the average of any class of individuals …
34ability — [ə bil′ə tē] n. pl. abilities [ME abilite < MFr habilité < L habilitas < habilis: see ABLE] 1. a being able; power to do (something physical or mental) 2. skill, expertness, or talent …
35mental disorder — Any illness with a psychological origin, manifested either in symptoms of emotional distress or in abnormal behaviour. Most mental disorders can be broadly classified as either psychoses or neuroses (see neurosis; psychosis). Psychoses (e.g.,… …
36Mental rotation — is the ability to rotate mental representations of two dimensional and three dimensional objects. Contents 1 Introduction 2 How mental rotation ability is assessed …
37Mental confusion — Confusion redirects here. For other uses, see Confusion (disambiguation). Mental confusion ICD 10 R41.0 ICD 9 298.9 MeSH …
38Mental chronometry — For Ian Lowe s book, see Reaction Time (book). Reaction time redirects here. For the biological mechanism, see Reflex. Mental chronometry is the use of response time in perceptual motor tasks to infer the content, duration, and temporal… …
39mental age — noun the level of intellectual development as measured by an intelligence test • Hypernyms: ↑age * * * noun, pl ⋯ ages [count] technical : a measurement of a person s ability to think and understand that is expressed as the age at which an… …
40Mental retardation — A term used when a person has certain limitations in mental functioning and in skills such as communicating, taking care of him or herself, and social skills. These limitations will cause a child to learn and develop more slowly than a typical… …
