Infant cognition : predicting later intellectual functioning

목차 (Table of Contents)

• CONTENTS
• Tables and Figures = xi
• Series Editor's Preface = xiii
• Preface = xvii
• 1. Infant Intelligence Tests: Past and Prologue = 1
• On the Nature of Intelligence = 1
• Early Attempts at Measuring Infant Intelligence = 5
• The Child Welfare Institutes and the Normative Approach = 5
• Early Normative Scales = 7
• Normative Infant Tests and Human Intelligence = 9
• Test Construction = 10
• Application = 11
• Predictive Validity of the Early Tests = 14
• Possible Reasons for the Failure in Prediction = 18
• Poor Psychometric Properties = 18
• The Problem of Shifting Domains = 19
• A Summary, Some Conclusions, and a Direction = 27
• 2. Individual Differences in Infant Visual Attention: Selective Looking in Infants = 30
• Infant Visual Habituation = 33
• Interpretations of Visual Habituation = 34
• Procedures for Measuring Visual Habituation = 36
• Quantifying Infant Visual Habituation = 39
• Individual Differences in Fixation Duration = 50
• Infant Visual Habituation: Summary and Interpretations = 56
• Infant Response to Novel Stimuli = 59
• Interpretations of Infant Novelty Preferences = 59
• Procedures for Measuring Novelty Preferences = 61
• Quantifying Infant Responses to Novelty = 70
• Individual Differences in Response to Novelty = 72
• Prediction From Response to Novelty Measures = 75
• Infant Response to Novelty: Summary and Interpretations = 77
• Conclusion = 80
• 3. Individual Differences in Infant Learning and Memory = 82
• Learning and Intelligence = 83
• Learning Paradigms and Learning in Infancy = 84
• Individual Differences in Early Classical Conditioning = 86
• Individual Differences in Operant Conditioning = 87
• The Conjugate Reinforcement Paradigm = 88
• The Visual Anticipation Paradigm = 94
• Summary = 101
• 4. Summary, Conclusions, and Implications = 103
• Skepticism Concerning the Predictive Validity of These Measures = 104
• Artifactual Prediction = 105
• Degree of Prediction = 108
• Summary = 112
• Mechanisms Underlying Developmental Continuity = 113
• Summary = 117
• Determinants of Individual Differences in Processing Speed = 117
• Determinants of Individual Differences in Memory Performance = 122
• Other Issues in the Search for a Mechanism = 124
• Implications of the Current Findings = 125
• Implications for the Study of Information Processing = 126
• Implications for the Development of Individual Infants = 127
• References = 129
• Index = 147
• About the Author = 153