Infant Reflexes
This reflex causes an infant to turn their head and make sucking motions when their cheek is stroked.
What is the Rooting Reflex?
The natural process of brain and body growth, including motor skills.
What is Physical Development?
These basic survival requirements include food, water, and shelter.
What are Physiological Needs?
When an infant is startled, they fling their arms out sideways with palms up.
What is the Moro Reflex?
This pattern of development means infants first learn to move their head and trunk before controlling their hands and feet.
What is Proximodistal Development?
This level of need includes love, friendship, and a sense of belonging.
What are Love and Acceptance Needs?
Newborns automatically grasp objects placed in their hands due to this reflex.
What is the Palmer Grasp?
Large body parts like arms, legs, back, and chest are associated with this type of muscle growth.
What are Large Muscles?
This pattern of development describes how infants gain control over their head, trunk, and limbs before mastering movements of their hands and feet.
What is Proximodistal Development?
This grasp, which develops later, involves using the thumb and forefinger to pick up small objects.
What is the Pincer Grasp?
This phase of infant crying follows a predictable pattern, described with the acronym PURPLE.
What is PURPLE Crying?
This severe brain injury occurs when an infant is violently shaken, often leading to permanent damage or death.
What is Shaken Baby Syndrome?
A general term for involuntary responses to stimuli in infants.
What is a reflex?
This one-piece infant garment fastens with snaps at the crotch.
What is a Onesie?
This highest level of Maslow’s hierarchy involves realizing one’s full potential while contributing to the greater good.
What is Self-Actualization?