Question

Who challenged the concept of a mental age in measuring intelligence in adults?
a) David Wechsler
b) Lewis Terman
c) Sir Francis Galton
d) Alfred Binet

Answer 1

a) David Wechsler challenged the concept of a mental age in measuring intelligence in adults. He developed the Wechsler Adult Intelligence Scale (WAIS) which uses a different approach to assess intelligence without relying on the concept of mental age, focusing instead on an IQ score based on a normative distribution.