PSYC 2110 Chapter Notes -Birth Weight, Breastfeeding, Cerebral Cortex
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Reflex: involuntary and automatic response to a stimulus i. e. eye blinking to a puff of air. Something"s acquired are survival reflexes: things needed to survive (breathing, eye-blink, and sucking/swallowing) also used to create a close companionship with parents. Other reflexes are called root reflexes: these are things that babies have, but are not needed for their survival - a baby getting close to the mothers nipple will start sucking before they latch. Infants go through six different states of arousal during the day (spend 70% of their time sleeping) Just like rem, crying starts to decline with age (around 3 months)