Abstract
LAMB, MICHAEL E.; GARN, STANLEY M.; and KEATING, MARY T. Correlations between Sociability and Cognitive Performance among Eight-Month-Olds. CHILD DEVELOPMENT, 1981, 52, 711713. Ratings of social behavior and scores on the Bayley Mental Development Index (MDI) were obtained for 33,685 8-month-olds. A composite measure of sociability correlated .23 with total MDI scores, .26 on the socially loaded items, and .17 with the nonsocial items. This suggests that performance variables account for some small portion of the relationship between sociability and cognitive test performance. The residual effect must be accounted for by an effect of sociability on cognitive competence. Social responsiveness to the examiner was the strongest predictor of MDI scores, but social responsiveness to mother also accounted for an independent portion of the variance. The relationship between sociability and cognitive test performance was unaffected by social class, race, or sex.
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