Moro Reflex

What will be an ideal response?


- STIMULATION Hold infant horizontally on
back and let head drop slightly, or produce a sudden
loud sound against surface supporting infant.
- RESPONSE Infant makes an "embracing"
motion by arching back, extending legs, throwing arms outward, and then bringing arms in toward the body.
- FUNCTION In human evolutionary past,
may have helped infant cling to mother

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