Coordinating attention involves:

• A. Adults ignore the infant's gaze
• B. Adults follow the infant's focus of attention and match communication to the infant's eye gaze
• C. Infants ignore caregiver cues
• D. It is unrelated to attention

Answer: (B)

Coordinating attention means sharing a moment of focus with another person so both are looking at the same thing and the communication is tied to that focus. In this context, adults actively follow where the infant is looking and adjust what they say and how they say it to match that eye gaze. This shared focus helps the infant map words to objects or events and supports early language learning and social interaction. For example, if the infant looks at a ball, the caregiver looks at the ball, labels it, and perhaps points to it, reinforcing that word with the referent. This bidirectional, alignment process is essential for building understanding and vocabulary. The other options describe ignoring gaze, ignoring cues, or having nothing to do with attention, which contradicts how joint attention operates and why it matters for development.