KIN 284 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Apgar Score, Mcdonaldland, Palmar Grasp Reflex
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Understand where reflexive behaviour falls on the developmental continuum. Most basic form of movement development on the developmental continuum, reflexive behavior sits at the bottom. Know the purpose of primitive, postural, and locomotor reflexes. Mediated by spinal cord and lower brain stem. Allow infant to react to gravitational forces and changes in equilibrium. Resemble voluntary movements that appear later in life. Typically suppressed by 5th or 6th month in life. Apply the apgar scale to examples and provide a score for examples. 1 blue extremities and pink body. 2 cry on stimulation, pulls body away. Identify and describe the following reflexes sucking, rooting, moro, startle, palmar grasp, tonic neck, babkin, babinski, plantar grasp, placing, head and body righting, labyrinthine righting, pull-up, parachute, crawling, stepping, and swimming. Sucking reflex (primitive) elicited by touching the lips of the infant. 4th fetal month 3rd month infant promotes feeding.
