Reflexes

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 different reflexes. The first reflex I performed on Lucy…

The sucking reflex is presented even before birth. A baby may be seen with their thumbs in their mouth in ultrasound pictures. In time, a baby's sucking reflex harmonizes with the child's breathing and swallowing. This reflex is very important because as the brain rapidly develops it needs nutrients. If the child does not demonstrate this reflex this may be harmful not only because he/she will not eat healthy foods but the infant will ultimately struggle with gaining weight and eating food in…

Reflexes are a big part of physical development, for example a baby will suck when faced with a nipple, or turn their heads when they hear a voice. Or grasping a finger that is placed in their hand. By 5 months the baby may be able to roll over onto its tummy. Motor skills in a 15 month old may result in the toddler being able to stand and possibly even walk. By the age of 1, most children can respond to common words and can recognise the names of things such as ‘mummy’. They start to show…

years of life, during the Infancy stage. In these first two years gross and fine motor skills develop rapidly. During the first month, most of a baby's behavior is reflexive. There are four major reflexes that babies begin to develop. The first are mouthing reflexes, the sucking and swallowing reflexes being the most important. A baby will automatically initiate sucking when their mouth region is touched. The rooting reflex is when a baby’s cheek is touched and they turn their head towards…

Psychology 210 Assignment 2 - Jenna Johnston Reflexes are uncontrolled responses an individual has. The purpose of these reflexes or adaptive reflexes are to help the baby survive such as sucking, if they didn’t know how to suck they wouldn’t be able to eat. Three possible outcomes of the reflexes you are born with are: 1. Some stay with you throughout your life such as, blinking 2. Some of them disappear throughout your life such as when you grow up you can control when you move and turn…

infants reflexes, I could help them find out why the infant does what they do. The movements the infants do are called primitive reflex behavior. They are involuntary reflexes. Our lower part of the brain is what controls these reflexes. Reflexes are the first part of brain that develops and these reflexes are only active for a brief period. These primitive reflexes are replaced by postural reflexes. We have more reflexes during the first year of our life then our adulthood. The reflexes…

Acoustic reflexes are contractions of the stapedius muscle in the middle ear. This reflex occurs when a loud sound is presented to the ear causing the tympanic membrane to stiffen and cause a change in immittance (Martin & Clark, 2012). When measuring the acoustic reflex threshold, we are measuring the softest sound that can cause a reflex of the stapedius muscle as well as the duration of time needed for the reflex to decay. The reflex is presented as a deflection, or a curve/dip, on the…

1. Infants grow 10 to 12 creeps and triple their body weight amid the main year of life. By the age of two, a little child's tallness will be half as tall as what it will be as grown-ups. The second 50% of their stature will be conveyed throughout the following 10 to 12 years of their life, which implies a two year old's tallness can be evaluated by multiplying his or her present tallness. 2. The cerebrum and the sensory system grow quickly amid the initial two years of life. The midbrain and…

examination is important to detect underlying problems that can cause delay or deficit in the normal development and functioning of an infant (URMC, 2014). This paper will discuss the proper examination of behavior, cranial nerves, tone, positioning, reflexes, head sutures and head circumference of a newborn and how they relate to a neurological examination (University of Utah Medical Center…

Where Ebbinghaus used nonsense symbols to uncover humans true abilities of association. While Pavlov discovered more accurately how reflexes work and classical condition. When combining both Ebbinghaus and Pavlov’s work we find the results of mind-body dualism. Mind-body dualism is composed of two components, one in which actions are voluntarily controlled by the mind, better known as…