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Can measures of infant habituation predict later intellectual ability?
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By the end of the 1970s, about 50 years of research had shown fairly clearly that prediction coefficients from measures of infant behaviour to later measures of intelligence in childhood were so low as to indicate that, except in extreme cases such as severe subnormality, the early measures had no predictive validity.1 2 From about this time, however, researchers began to question the nature and validity of the infant tests on which these findings were based. It was argued that the `mental scales' on these tests primarily measured perceptual and motor development, rather than mental or cognitive growth, and there is little reason to expect measures of such abilities to predict later IQ.3 4
Accordingly, the search began for cognitive or information processing
measures of infant performance which might more reasonably be
considered to tap abilities that are similar to, and may be predictive
of, the abilities measured by the childhood intelligence tests.
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