Infant Reflexes and Movements
This reflex occurs when an infant startles in reaction to a sudden, intense noise or movement, the baby arches back, throws back their head, and flings out their limbs
What is the moro reflex?
Mistake made by infants of searching for an object in a familiar hiding place (a) rather than a new hiding place (b) where they just saw it hidden.
What is A-not B Error?
The sequence in which the earliest growth always occurs at the top - the head - with physical growth and differentiation working top-to bottom.
What is the cephalocaudal pattern?
What is how do babies communicate?
A refined grip involving the thumb and forefinger to pick up small objects, which typically develops toward the end of the first year.
What is the pincer grasp?
A phenomenon that occurs when an infant understands that objects exist even when out of sight.
What is object permanence?
The sequence in which growth starts at the center of the body and moves outward toward the extremities.
What is the proximodistal pattern?
This decreases the risk of Sudden Infant Death Syndrome.
What is placing babies on their backs to sleep?
What is the rooting reflex?
The use of short, precise words that do not contain grammatical markers (i.e. big dog or more milk)
What is telegraphic speech?
The process of encasing axons with a fatty sheath, insulating nerve cells and increasing electrical signal impulse speed.
What is myelination?
This directly supports memory consolidation, language acquisition, and early executive function.
What is optimal infant sleep?
Occurs when a baby tightly grips any object placed against the infant's palm.
What is the grasping reflex?
This occurs when an infant uses existing schemes to deal with new information.
What is assimilation?
This cycle of sleep provides essential brain stimulation.
What is REM sleep?
This practice may reduce long-term risks of breast cancer, ovarian cancer, and cardiovascular hospitalizations.
What are the maternal benefits of breastfeeding?
This is the automatic sucking that allows nourishment before associative learning occurs.
What is the sucking reflex?
This occurs when an infant adjusts existing schemes to fit new information and experiences.
What is accommodation?
The rapid synaptic processes that allow rapid brain growth and selective removal of unnecessary information.
What are blooming and pruning?
What is the Visual Cliff Experiment?