Origins of Intelligence: Infancy and Early Childhood

Abstract

1 On the Nature of Intelligence: Science or Bias?.- 2 Origins of Infant Intelligence Testing.- 3 Measuring Mental Abilities in Infancy: The Value and Limitations.- 4 A Conceptual Approach to Early Mental Development.- 5 Organization of Sensorimotor Intelligence.- 6 An Evolutionary Perspective on Infant Intelligence: Species Patterns and Individual Variations.- 7 Early Learning and Intelligence.- 8 Environmental Risks in Fetal and Neonatal Life as Biological Determinants of Infant Intelligence.- 9 Social Intelligence and the Development of Communicative Competence.- 10 Culture and Intelligence in Infancy: An Ethnopsychological View.- 11 Social Class and Infant Intelligence.- 12 Temperament-Intelligence Reciprocities in Early Childhood: A Contextual Model.- 13 Looking Smart: The Relationship between Affect and Intelligence in Infancy.- 14 Motivation and Cognition in Infancy.- 15 Mental Retardation: Developmental Issues in Cognitive and Social Adaptation.- Author Index.