ABSTRACT
A large subgroup of papers remains which attempts to find infant correlates of intelligence. Risk factors such as low birth weight and prematurity are related to behavioral indices of intelligence in infants. The new tool here is habituation, and the assumption is made that this process holds out the greatest hope for development of an infant intelligence test. The reason usually assigned is that these scales are comprised of items that measure physical rather than cognitive development of the infant. Habituation, however, has not been used in infant intelligence tests, and a major contribution of this volume to the area of mental retardation is the development of the idea that habituation may provide a basis for assessment of infant intelligence. Intelligence has not matured sufficiently in infancy to permit reliable measurements of individual differences. Habituation is not sufficiently cognitive or complex to be related to intelligence.
