Infant Reflexes

Question 1

Rooting

Answer 1

• Adaptive
• Develops in 3rd trimester
• Turns towards stimuli and opens mouth
• Diminishes at 3-6 months

Question 2

Suckling

Answer 2

• Adaptive
• Develops early 3rd trimester
• Stimulation to top of tongue or middle of hard palate creates front to back tongue motion
• diminishes at 3-6 months

Question 3

Adaptive Reflexes

Answer 3

• Rooting

- Suckling

Question 4

Tongue Protrusion

Answer 4

• Protective
• Develops late 3rd trimester
• Stimulation to front of tongue > anterior movement of tongue
• Diminishes 3-6 months

Question 5

Tongue Lateralization

Answer 5

• Protective
• Developes Late 3rd trimester
• stimilation to lateral surface of tongue > movement towards stimuli
• integrated to more voluntary action by 6-9 months

Question 6

Phasic Bite

Answer 6

• Protective
• Develops late 3rd trimester
• Stimulation to gums > biting
• Integrated into more voluntary action by 9-12 months

Question 7

Integrates in to voluntary action

Answer 7

• Tongue Lateralization (6-9 months)

- Phasic Bite (9-12 months)

Question 8

Gag Reflex

Answer 8

• Protective
• Develops third trimester
• stimulation to posterior 2/3 of tongue and pharyngeal wall, then posterior 1/3 of tongue by 6-9 months
• stays into adulthood

Question 9

Coughing

Answer 9

• Protective
• Develops early 3rd trimester
• Stays in to Adulthood

Question 10

Stays in to adulthood

Answer 10

• Gag reflex
• Coughing
• Swallow

Question 11

Swallow

Answer 11

• Protective
• Develops early third trimester
• Stays into adulthood

Question 12

Protective Reflexes

Answer 12

• Tongue protrustion
• Tongue Lateralization
• Phasic Bite
• Gag Reflex
• Coughing
• Swallow

Question 13

Develops Early 3rd Trimester

Answer 13

• Suckling
• Coughing
• Swallow Reflex

Question 14

Develops Late 3rd Trimester

Answer 14

• Tongue Protrusion
• Tongue Lateralization
• Phasic Bite
• Gag Reflex

Question 15

Develops sometime in 3rd trimester

Answer 15

-Rooting