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1
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Newborn reflexes are..

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  • natural
  • needed for survival
  • Rooting Reflex
  • Palmar
  • Stepping
  • Babinski
  • Moro
2
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Rooting Reflex

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  • turns towards what is touching the face
  • needed to eat, e.g breast feeding
  • gone at about 4 months
3
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Palmar Reflex

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  • Grasping response to pressure
  • What we think is holding our hands
  • gone at about 6 months.
4
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Stepping Reflex

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  • Mimics motion of walking

* gone at about 3 months

5
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Babinski Reflex

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  • Stroke bottom of foot & toes will curl

* gone at about 4 months

6
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Moro Reflex

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  • slightly drop of the head, react with startled look, arms & legs out trying to grasp
  • gone at about 3 months
7
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Influences in motor development

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  • Cepaolcaudal
  • Proximodistal
  • Cultural influences
8
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Cephalocaudal Direction (top-down)

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  • hold head up
  • roll over
  • sit up
  • crawling position
  • crawling
  • pulling up
  • cruising walking
9
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Proximidistal Direction

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  • control of arms
  • palmar grasp
  • pincer grasp
  • tripod grasp (pencil grip)
10
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Theories of motor development

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  • Maturation
  • Experiential
  • Interactionist Perspective
11
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Maturation Theory

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  • Sequential

* Regardless of culture

12
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Experiential Theory

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  • Through learning experience
  • Maturation is sufficient, BUT not enough
  • Dennis, 1960 study results: bc of little stimulation did not develop to the rate of a child that was being stimulated
13
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Interactionist Perspective

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•Esther Thelen
•Motor skills developed through infants effort (have to be active)
• Effortful
• Motivated (want to do what they see)
• Visual Orientation
1. Exploring
2. Selection
14
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Visual Orientation

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  1. Exploring (seeing diff. methods)

2. Selection (select helpful method)

15
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Gross motor (large)

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  • large muscle movement

* arms, legs

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Fine motor (small)

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  • Small movements
  • movements with hands & fingers
  • e.g: drawing, writing, eating
17
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Sensation

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• 5 senses

18
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Perception

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•interpretation of input (form 5 senses)

19
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Visual at birth

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  • blurry

* detects if lines are straight or curved

20
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Visual at 2-4 months

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  • Can detect faces
  • have preferences for faces over other things
  • Preference for mothers face
21
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Visual at 4 months

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  • 20/20 vision
  • able to detect color
  • preference for primary colors
22
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Touch

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  • Responsive to touch at birth

* preference for soft touch

23
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Smell

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  • Responsive at birth
  • Can detect what smells good & bad
  • preference to mothers smell after 1 wk.
24
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Taste

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  • Present at birth

* Preference for sweets

25
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Hearing

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  • Before birth, 24 wks of gestation
  • preference for mothers voice at birth
  • preference for music, rythms
26
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Depth Perception; Visual Cliff Study (Gibson & Walk 1960)

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  • suggests baby is cautious of birth
  • fear dev. (@ 7 months)
  • Social referencing