Explain how information processing abilities are assessed in infants.
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Information-processing abilities can be assessed in simple ways that allow us to study intelligence in infants who are too young to tell us what they think and understand. For example, infants' visual reaction time (how quickly they look when shown a stimulus) and preference for novelty (the degree to which they prefer new stimuli over familiar ones) are indicators of attention, memory, and processing speed, and have been shown to predict intelligence in childhood and adolescence. Habituation tasks also provide information about the efficiency of information processing because they indicate how quickly an infant learns: Infants who learn quickly look away from an unchanging stimulus (or habituate) rapidly.
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