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Thompson, Lee A.; And Others – Child Development, 1991
Tested infants at five and seven months of age for visual novelty preference. Tested the same infants at 12, 24, and 36 months by means of a battery of cognitive and language tests that compare novelty preference to general and specific cognitive abilities. Results support recent findings that infant novelty preference is predictive of later IQ.…
Descriptors: Cognitive Processes, Dimensional Preference, Infants, Intelligence Quotient

Holzman, Thomas G.; And Others – Journal of Educational Psychology, 1983
The cognitive determinants of number series completion performance were studied by presenting a systematic set of problems to college adults and to average- and high-IQ elementary school children. In each group, a combination of process and content-knowledge variables accounted for more than 70 percent of the variance in solution difficulty.…
Descriptors: Age Differences, Cognitive Ability, Difficulty Level, Epistemology