When You Put Your Finger on Your Newborn Nephew's Palm

question 140

Multiple Choice

When you put your finger on your newborn nephew's palm, he curls his own fingers around yours, grasping your finger tightly. What behavior have you elicited from your nephew?

• A) the grasping reflex
• B) the rooting reflex
• C) the stepping reflex
• D) a newborn's inborn preference to seek human contact

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Definitions:

Function

A relationship or expression involving one or more variables, where each input value has exactly one output value.

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Function

A function is a relation between a set of inputs and a set of permissible outputs with the property that each input is related to exactly one output.