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  • The present study investigated predictive relations between accelerated performance on tests of infant development, infant behavioral style, and performance on tests of cognitive and creative ability during adolescence. In addition, infant behavioral style was also examined as a means to enhance the predictive power of tests of infant development. The research area concerning infancy and the preschool years has mainly focused on the average child or deviations spanning below the mean. Similarly, much of the research within the area pertaining to the gifted and talented has focused on school age children, with little emphasis being placed on giftedness in the early years of life. The current study attempted to explore the areas of intelligence and creativity from a developmental perspective. This was done through a longitudinal follow-up of individuals who took part in research studies examining early indicators of intelligence, learning, and temperament as infants/toddlers. All participants of the current study obtained at least a standard score of 120 using the Mental Developmental Index of the BSID at the time of original participation. Thirty-two participants were obtained for use in the current study who were originally assessed as infants/toddlers approximately 12-19 years ago. Participants were administered the Stanford-Binet Intelligence Scale: Fourth Edition, the Torrance Tests of Creative Thinking (Figural Form B), and also filled out an updated demographic information sheet. Prior research has determined lack of predictive validity between infant and later tests of cognitive ability due to the limited verbal nature of the early standardized tests and the largely verbal nature of later standardized intelligence tests. It is also believed that aspects of infant behavioral style may contribute to the predictive validity of early standardized scores for later intelligence. It was hypothesized that the Bayley MDI score obtained as an infant/toddler would be significantly related to later creative ability. It was also hypothesized that infant/toddler behavior rating scores for test-affect extraversion, task orientation, and duration of orienting, when taken together, would be significantly related to later cognitive ability. Lastly, it was hypothesized that the addition of the three infant/toddler behavior rating scores to the Bayley MDI score would improve the predictive power over and above that predicted by the MDI score alone, in relation to later cognitive ability. Pearson correlation and multiple regression analyses did not yield significant results for the hypotheses reported above. However, a curvilinear relationship suggests that extremely high scores (130 and above) obtained during infancy may be related to later creativity, a finding that needs to be further explored with a larger sample size. Implications of the findings, limitations of the study, and directions for future research are discussed. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2016 APA, all rights reserved)

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