Rooting reflex - answer-a baby's tendency, when touched on the cheek or mouth, to turn her head and search for the nipple
Moro reflex - answer-startle reflex in which a newborn arches her back and throws out her arms and legs in response to a loud noise or an abrupt change in the environment
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Psych140 - Module 3 - Portage Learning
Rooting reflex - answer-a baby's tendency, when touched on the cheek or mouth, to turn her head and
search for the nipple
Moro reflex - answer-startle reflex in which a newborn arches her back and throws out her arms and
legs in response to a loud noise or an abrupt change in the environment
Palmer grasp reflex - answer-reflexive curling of the infant's fingers around an object that touches its
palm
Stepping reflex - answer-reflex that causes newborn babies to make little stepping motions if they are
held upright with their feet just touching a surface
Babinski reflex - answer-in response to the sole of the foot being stroked, a baby's big toe moves
upward or toward the top surface of the foot and the other toes fan out
Tonic neck reflex - answer-elicited when baby head turned to a side, the extremities on that side extend
(birth to 4 months)
Swimming reflex - answer-when held horizontally on their stomachs, newborns stretch out their arms
and legs
How does an infant's sleep change around 6 weeks? - answer-prior to 6 weeks, infant sleep is highly
irregular, without a clear sleep cycle and with a heavy amount of rem sleep. Around 6 weeks, patterns of
nrem and rem sleep develop.
Nrem sleep - answer-non-rapid eye movement sleep; when the baby is nearly motionless. Increases as
baby gets older (aka regular sleep)
Rem sleep - answer-uneven breathing, makes up roughly half of an infant's daily sleep pattern. Infant's,
unlike adults, begin their sleep cycle in rem sleep
Shaken baby syndrome - answer-the results of a child being violently shaken by someone, brain damage
is a common result, is a form of child abuse
5 s's of soothing a newborn - answer-swaddling, side/stomach, swinging, shushing, sucking
Infancy - answer-the stage of development that begins at birth and lasts between 24 months
Baby fat peaks at - answer-9 months
Crying peaks at - answer-6 weeks
Cephacaudal growth - answer-"head to tail" in normal infant development, the brain and skull are
primary locations of growth. Over time, limbs and other body parts will become primary sites of growth.
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