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Infantile responses

Posted byBrian Hopkins May 22, 2019

Organized, and rather stereotyped, behaviors that can be elicited from the newborn under specific environmental conditions, and which appear to ‘obligatory’ in nature. 

See Babinski response, Fixed action pattern (FAP), Moro response, Reflex, Rooting response, Startles, Stepping response, Stretches

Posted byBrian HopkinsMay 22, 2019Posted inUncategorizedTags: glossary

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