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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2022 Apr 1.
Published in final edited form as: Cogn Dev. 2021 Mar 25;58:101038. doi: 10.1016/j.cogdev.2021.101038

Table 1:

Example Skills at Each Level

Tasks common to developmental tests Discrete skills prerequisite to IQ tests Tasks common to IQ tests
Language One-word receptive vocabulary Following 3-step unrelated instructions Verbal analogies; Comprehension
Motor Gross and fine motor milestones Hand-eye and bilateral coordination for object manipulation Visuospatial processing (e.g., block design)
Categorization Identical match-to-sample Sorting object by where they are most likely to be found (i.e., concept formation) Nonverbal Reasoning Semantic classification; Working memory; Matrices; Analogies (verbal or nonverbal)