Week 7 (8) Flashcards

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What are reflexes?

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  • involuntary stereotyped movement responses to a particular stimulus
  • reflexes begin prenatally due to maturity of CNS (brainstem and midbrain)
  • ~27 reflexes at birth
  • some stay throughout life
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What are are the 5 things to know about the purpose of reflexes?

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  • built-in responses to c=facilitate survival
  • allow “dialogue” with environment
  • reflexive movements result in sensory consequences (adaptation)
  • provide building blocks for future movement
  • sometimes no clear relevance at birth
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What are the 3 main types of reflexes?

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primitive, postural, and locomotor

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What are primitive reflexes? What are the ones to know?

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  • survival and protection
  • sucking, rooting, moro, asymmetric tonic neck reflex, symmetric tonic neck reflex, palmar grasp reflex
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What are primitive reflexes? What are the ones to know?

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  • react to gravitational changes in equilibrium
  • labyrinthine righting reflex, pull-up reflex, parachute reflex
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What are locomotor reflexes? What are the ones to know?

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  • for travel and navigating envrionment
  • crawling reflex, stepping reflex, swimming reflex
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What is the sucking reflex? What is the purpose and timetable?

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  • purpose: meet feeding needs
  • stimulated by lip touch
  • develop coordination in sucking, breathing, and swallowing
  • timetable: 4th prenatal month to b-9th postnatal month
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What is the rooting reflex? What is the purpose and timetable?

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  • purpose: seeking food and prep for feeding
  • stimulated by cheek touch
  • timetable: birth to 9th month
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What is the moro reflex? What is the purpose and timetable?

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  • purpose: self-protection from body imbalance or sudden stimulation
  • stimulus: starts in supine postion, and startle (e.g. tap a pillow) or stimulate falling
  • response: arms and legs extend outward, and then flex
  • timetable: 7th prenatal month to 3rd postnatal month
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What is the asymmetrical tonic neck reflex? What is the purpose and timetable?

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  • purpose: for developing hand-eye coordination
  • stimulus: start infant in supine position → turn head to one side
  • response: same side arm and leg extend; flex on opposite side
  • timetable: 7th prenatal month to 5th month postnatal
  • no clear relevance at birth
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What is the symmetrical tonic neck reflex? What is the purpose and timetable?

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  • purpose: allow independent movement of upper and lower body parts, preparing for coordinated movement
  • stimulus: place in crawling position and flex head; response: arms flex and arms extend
  • stimulus: place in crawling position and extend head; response: arms extend and legs bend
  • timetable: 7th prenatal month, prominent at 5-6th postnatal months, integrated by 10th-11th month
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What is the palmar grasp reflex? What is the purpose and timetable?

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  • purpose: to practice clenching hands, prepping for later grasp movements
  • stimulus: touch palm with finger or object
  • response: hand closes tightly around finger or object
  • grip is strong enough to hold most of baby’s weight
  • timeline: birth to 4-6 months
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What is the labyrinthine righting reflex? What is the purpose and timetable?

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  • purpose: corrects orientation of body when it’s taken out of position
  • stimulus: while infant is supported upright, tilt infant
  • response: head moves to stay upright
  • timeline: 2 months postnatal to 1 year
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What is the parachute reflex? What is the purpose and timetable?

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  • purpose: protect and support when off balance
  • stimulus: infant is held upright, and lower them toward the ground quickly
  • response: legs and arms extend
  • timeline: 5-6th postnatal months to 1 year
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What is the crawling reflex? What is the purpose and timetable?

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  • purpose: prep for voluntary crawling later in development
  • stimulus: in prone position, apply pressure to toes
  • response: infant will push off opposing legs and arms
  • timeline: birth to 4 months
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What is the locomotor reflex? What is the purpose and timetable?

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  • purpose: prep for voluntary walking later in development
  • stimulus: holding infant upright, put pressure on bottom of feet
  • response: knee lifts as if initiation walking movement
  • timeline: birth to 2-3 months
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What is the swimming reflex? What is the purpose and timetable?

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  • purpose: prep for voluntary swimming later in life
  • stimulus: hold infant above water with head up
  • response: infant will move arms and legs rhythmically
  • timeline: birth to 6 months
18
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What is the 1st view in linking reflexes to voluntary movement?

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stimulation transforms reflexes to voluntary actions
- reflexes become voluntary actions through training
- compared infants who practiced walking through stepping reflex with those that didn’t → walking emerged earlier in those who practiced stepping reflex

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What is the 2nd view in linking reflexes to voluntary movement?

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voluntary movement emerges from reflexes after development of multiple subsystems
- reflex disappears and reappears as voluntary movement when subsystems are developed
- changing constraint can result in disappearing of stepping reflex
- with young infants who were still reflex-stepping: added small weights to their ankles → decreased stepping reflex
- with older infants who no longer reflex stepped: submerged them in water → water’s buoying effects simulated increase in strength → infants stepped with greater frequency

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What are rate controllers?

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  • a constraint that prevents the development of a movement pattern
  • e.g. rate controllers involved in walking may include balance systems, leg strength, force production
21
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Do spontaneous movements (stereotypies) result from external stimuli?

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What are spontaneous movements?

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  • transitional behaviours: some level of control but not intentional or goal-directed
  • early stereotypies: leg kicking, arm waving, arm banging, finger flexion
  • later stereotypies: arching the back, rocking, bouncing while standing
  • posture will influence movement frequency
23
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The beginnings of voluntary movement is known as?

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rudimentary behaviour

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What is rudimentary behaviour?

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  • highly influenced by environment (stimulation and affordances)
  • cephalocaudal-proximodistal direction of development
  • 4 E’s: embodied, embedded, enculturated, enabling
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What are the 4 E’s in rudimentary behaviour?

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embodied: current state of the body will influence what actions one can do
embedded: the environment will offer constraint action possibilities
enculturated: social and cultural influence shape actions
enabling: new motor skills create opportunities to learn and explore

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What is postural control?

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ability to detect changes in body’s center of gravity in relation to the base of support
- head control, rolling, sitting, standing

27
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Describe rudimentary locomotion

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  • at 3 months, scoot while sitting
  • at 6 months, crawling, creeping, edging sideways, crab walking
  • at 8 months, can stand, cruise while holding on to objects, move sideways
  • at 13 months, walking
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What are prehension and manipulation in manual control?

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prehension: using hands to reach, grasp, release (first 2 years)
manipulation: using hands to skillfully with object(s) (after 2 years)

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What is non-goal directed behaviour in motor control?

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  • emerge prenatally/birth
  • appear as reflexes and spontaneous movements
30
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What is goal-directed behaviour in motor control?

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  • emerge after improved postural control and stability
  • initial movements are shaky but become smoother over time → make corrections as they perform movements more and as level of control changes
31
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What is the development sequence for any small object

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  • releasing grasp is difficult, can take 18 months
32
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What is the development sequence for grasping large object?

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  1. reach with one hand only
  2. reach with one hand and then the other
  3. bimanual, reach with both hands at once
33
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What is the development sequence for grasping force application?

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  1. at first, force and object weight are unrelated
  2. can adjust force after initially grasping an object
  3. then, can adjust force after judging objects
34
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What is motor asymmetry?

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  • the paired limbs (hands, feet) and sensory organs (eyes, ears) used asymmetrically (right hemisphere motor and sensory activity paired with left half of the body
  • left hemisphere has a complementary role in conscious movement on the right side of the body
  • lateral preference and lateral (hemispheric) dominance
35
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Why are majority of people right handed?

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right-shift theory
- right-shift gene is dominant
- environment may influence limb preference in those with weaker right shift gene
- left hemisphere matures faster than right hemisphere, biasing more right-handed preference
- environment and culture can modify limb preference