Explain how information-processing skills in infancy are related to information-processing skills and IQ scores at age 11. Provide an example of each type of information-processing skill.

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What will be an ideal response?

Answer 1

The ideal answer should include:
1. Information-processing skills including memory, processing speed, attention, and representational competence can be tested in infancy and again at age 11 using different procedures, and infants who are better at any particular skill also tend to be better at that skill at age 11.
2. All four skills measured in infancy predict (are correlated with) IQ scores at age 11.
3. Memory includes memory for recognizing visuals, such as shapes.
4. Processing speed includes how much time it takes to orient to something on the right or left side of a screen.
5. Attention includes the number of times the child shifts attention (shifting focus from one object to the next) in looking at objects in a memory task.
6. Representational competence includes the ability to identify a shape that the child felt in the hand previously.