Video Transcript

Narrator: The Cognitive Development domain includes the strand Exploration. Infants are born curious and actively use their senses to explore and learn about their environment.

Example 1

Text on screen: Pays attention to caregiver’s face

On screen: 1-month-old Amara is in her mother’s arms quietly drinking from a bottle. Amara studies her mother’s face as her mother looks back at her sweetly.

Mother: What’s up?

Example 2

Text on screen: Explores by looking at objects

On screen: 2-month-old Sana is lying on a blanket next to her parents. Sana focuses intently on a soft toy her father holds in front of her.

Mother: (laughing)

Sana: (vocalizing)

Father: Mm-hmm.

On screen: Sana touches the back of the toy with her closed hand and sticks her tongue out. Her father moves the toy closer, so it briefly touches her mouth.

Mother: (inaudible)

Father: Mm-hmm.

Mother: (laughing)

Example 3

Text on screen: Explores by holding, touching, and looking at objects

On screen: 4-month-old Quetzaly is sitting in her caregiver’s arms. They look at a soft book together, and her caregiver speaks to her in English and Spanish.

Caregiver: Oh, look at that! Yes.

On screen: Quetzaly reaches for the book, grasps it and brings it close, and then lets it go.

Caregiver: Oh, you love the book. Yeah. It’s a book. So soft book. Soft book, look, soft book.

On screen: Quetzaly grabs the book again and touches it while the caregiver supports the book with her hand.

Caregiver: (speaking Spanish) Wow, the book. That.

On screen: Quetzaly looks at the book and brings it closer to her body

Caregiver: (English) Happy little. (speaking Spanish) Hold it. Now you hold it.

On screen: Quetzaly swings the book off to the side. Her caregiver catches the book and brings it close to Quetzaly again. Quetzaly holds the book again and then swings it.

Caregiver: You hold it. You hold it, hijito. You hold it, that book. You’re so really strong.