COGNITIVE OBSERVATION –

Part A - 7.5 months

1. a. Ayden sits on a matt on the floor with toys within her reach, she mouths and fumbles things
within her hand. They are drenched in spit from them being in her mouth. Her mother says she is
teething, but I also see this as cognitive development. Ayden’s mother came into the room she began
to crawl to her mom, her mom picked her up gave her a kiss and put her back down. Ayden then sees
a stuffed animal back over near her mat and toys, she took off towards the bear and begins to grab it.
I see this as her being cognitive of her wants and surroundings.
b. Stage 3 Secondary Circular Reactions.
2. To get Ayden to stage 4, coordination of secondary circular reactions, I feel a sensory board and a
stepping box would be helpful. A sensory board with knobs, pulls, and buttons would help Ayden work
on her fine motor skills and problem-solving skills. A short stepping box will help Ayden work on her
stability and large and gross motor skills.
3. The caregiver for Ayden is her mother Taylor, she is a stay at home mom for her and her other
daughter. Taylor repeats sounds back to Ayden and communicates constantly to her. Taylor would
talk to Ayden about things she was doing or planned to do as if she was talking to a friend. Taylor
played peek-a-boo with Ayden when she was folding laundry on the floor next to her.

Part B –18 months

1. a. Ryann understands simple questions and directions, she doesn’t say much, but demonstrates
her understanding. Ryann brought her caregiver to the fridge and when the caregiver opened it
pointed to the blueberries. Caregiver asked if she would like some and Ryann nodded her head yes.
Ryann plays with her kitchen set and imitated what she has seen in the kitchen. She brought her
kitchen cup to the caregiver for water. The caregiver did not pour it in there for her, but did
acknowledge that it was the correct cup, but told her she was going to use her special princess cup
for the water. Ryann put the cup on the ground and took her water cup.
b. Stage 5/6 leaning closer to 6, Ryann remembered there were blueberries in the fridge and stage 6
represents object permanence, but I feel she is just starting to leave stage 5.
2. Ryann’s play area is filled with large puzzles, coloring books and crayons, picture books, kitchen
set, and princess dolls, dresses, and other accessories. She has so many items that will encourage
creative thoughts and imaginary play. There are items to help her learn to solve problems such as
puzzles. There are musical keyboards that have each key colored different, and all make different
noises. Truly so many different options for her to pick up and be able to be stimulated.
3. Every interaction the caregiver had with Ryann was warm and friendly. The caregiver asked
Ryann questions and allowed her to make her own choices with just about everything. Ryann looked
out the sliding door and the caregiver asked if she would like to go outside, when Ryann said yes, the
caregiver said she needed shoes. The shoes Ryann pointed to wasn’t appropriate, but the caregiver
then pointed to a pair that was and asked if Ryann was okay with these instead. Ryann sat down,
once again showing her understanding of what was being said. I felt the caregiver did a really great
job with including Ryann in choices, even if Ryann choices weren’t the right ones and had to change
them.
Part C –
21 months
PIAGETIAN INFANCY SCALES
SCALE II*

DEVELOPEMENT OF MEANS FOR ACHIEVING DESIRED ENVIRONMENTAL EVENTS

Development of eye-hand coordination
6. 1. Using locomotion as means
Used Elsa and her blanket and danced with both in front to the song from frozen, removed blanket
and she didn’t seem to care. Then removed Elsa and she went and grabbed Elsa from behind my
back. She responded to object permanence with 50% success.

Development of the use of other subjects as intermediaries

7. Didn’t understand instructions.

8. Pillow corroboration for the use of support

If the infant obtains the object by means of the support, either at once or after the demonstration,
repeat the presentation once more, but instead of placing the object on the support, hold it about 4
inches above it and observe the infant’s reaction. If the infant’s behavior is not clear, repeat the
presentation with the object on the support and observe for difference in reaction.

9. Using a string horizontally to obtain object

At first, she whined and pouted for Elsa. We demonstrated pulling the string towards us and as it got
closer she began to calm down, but as we placed it back further she began to whine more. We placed
string in her hand and maneuvered her hands to pull the string while we helped for a couple pulls,
after a bout a minute of her playing with the string she began pulling the string to get Elsa closer.

10. Using string vertically to obtain object

She was losing interest and couldn’t get her to calm down to continue sitting in highchair.

11. Using a stick to obtain object

We used a wooden spoon and placed it next to her to reach her blanket. She picked the spoon up
and threw it multiple times to the floor. We asked her to try to get her blanket with the stick and she
replied no and threw it to the ground again.

Development of representation of means

12. When giving her the beaded necklace she went to put around her neck, we pulled beads away.
Put the beads into the container behind our backs and handed her the container with the beads,
she said uh oh, which made us believe she was talking about the beads in the container, we
pulled it out of the container and handed to her again with the container, we mentioned putting
them in the container, she said no and went to put the necklace on again.

13. Showing foresight - the problem of the solid ring

After 2 times of removing rings and moving the solid ring that was unstackable into her attention, she
tried to stack the solid ring for several seconds, she then stopped and stacked a couple of the other
ones then lost interest all together. She seemed to lose interest over sitting with us with the rings.
2. Maybe some milk containers and put items in it for her to get out, then maybe she would be
interested in putting them in and taking them out.