Reflex

A reflex is a simple, involuntary, or automatic action that the human body does in response to certain types of stimulation without you even having to think about it. Every healthy person has many different types of reflexes, most of which we are born with. From the beginning newborns automatically know how to root for the breast for feeding or grasp a finger. Reflexes are the most complex motor activities that neonates demonstrate. Infants have dozens of reflexes there are three sets critical to survival. Reflexes that maintain oxygen (breathing, hiccups, sneezes, thrashing), reflexes that maintain body temperature (cry, shiver, tuck in legs, and push away blankets), and reflexes that manages feeding (sucking, rooting, swallowing, crying,…

Eric estimated her to be approximately 23 inches long. The observation began with testing Riley’s physical development. Eric tickled the bottom of her foot, causing her toes to fan and then scrunch back together. This response is known as the Babinski reflex and it does not disappear until a baby is nine months or older (Santrock, 2014). She also showed evidence of the blinking reflex when her dad blew a puff of air into her face. This is another example of a typical response of an infant her…

Babinski reflex is one of the normal reflexes in infants. Reflexes are responses that occur when the body receives a certain stimulus. The Babinski reflex happens after the bottom of the foot has been rubbed firmly. The big toe then moves up or to the top surface of the foot. The other toes fan out. This reflex is normal in children up to 2 years old. It disappears as the child gets older. It may disappear as early as 12 months. When the Babinski reflex is present in a child older than 2…

The Semmelweis Reflex In 2017, it is common knowledge that bacteria live inside of corpses, and that bacteria can cause diseases. Almost every elementary schooler is fully aware of this fact. Nevertheless, at one point this was a groundbreaking discovery, one that was met with great skepticism and mockery. The German-Hungarian physician Ignaz Semmelweis (July 1, 1818 – August 13, 1865) is credited with the discovery of what is now common sense: one should wash their hands between handling dead…

Biophysical When babies are born the weight a little more than 7 pounds ( Ashford & Lecroy, 2010, p.246). Raziel was born completely healthy, with no problems, weighing about eight pounds. Raziel had no problems during birth according to his mother. By my observations, Raziel has been developing well, for his age. His brain development and physical growth show that Raziel is heading on the right path, his mother said that she is blessed that he came out healthy because she was sometimes nervous…

The primary goal of this research project is to extend our knowledge about the functional role of one of the most basic types of human reactions, the startle reflex. As pointed out earlier, although much is known about the startle reflex, there are clear gaps in our understanding of this ubiquitous human reaction. The most fundamental of these gaps relates to the functional reason humans are startled by intense sensory stimulation. The general assumption is that the startle reaction serves to…

A reflex is an involuntary response to a stimulus. People are born with several different reflexes. There are reflexes for just about everything in your body. Most reflexes are active after birth. Examples of theses are, how a baby eats and their desire to get from point A to point B. I am just going to focus just on the reflexes of one- three month olds infants. This study I observed a six week old baby, named Lucy. Her mother gave permission for Lucy to be observed and tested for six…

Introduction: A reflex is an action that your body does in response to without you having to think about it. There are many types of reflexes and everyone is born with it. For my assignment it will be based on different reflexes of the knee jerk reflex between boys and girls. This reflex is called a stretch reflex and it happens when you tap the tendon below the patella, or kneecap. I choose this assignment because I want to see the different time measurement of how fast a boy’s and girl’s…

DISCUSSION The aim of this investigation was to see whether exercising the Vestibulo Ocular Reflex increases and improves balance throughout all ages. From the results it is clear to see that majority of the test subjects improved after doing the VOR exercise. The results showed that 9 out of 60 people decreased and the rest of the participants tested increased. A large amount of 85% applicants increase in time after stimulating the Vestibulo Ocular Reflex. The mean of test A (before…

change so much in such a little time. We see video’s on how much we move and how much activities we did. Now we can remember it and not have to watch videos so there we can see how much we can change in just a little bit. Now this paper will be telling all the research and experiment test we did. Infants have a lot of reflexes when they are born, but we only did a couple with the baby Rylie. Infants usually out grow all the reflexes in a little over a year. The reflexes that were the Tonic…