Since the first edition of this volume was published in 1976, interest in the problem of intelligence in general and infant intelligence in particu lar has continued to grow. Taken together, the chapters present a rounded picture of the cen tral issues in infant intelligence.
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.