The Predictive Power of Infant Intelligence Tests Is

question 90

Multiple Choice

The predictive power of infant intelligence tests is

• A) high because sensorimotor activities are the beginning of intelligence.
• B) high because early individual differences can easily be determined.
• C) low because they evaluate different abilities than are evaluated in older children.
• D) low because infant tests ignore motor functioning.

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