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Thank you We sneak and here's your shmoop du jour

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brought to you by lazy boy psychology it's like armchair

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psychology but specifically practiced by people who just want to

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sit back watch the game eat some guac and give

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opinions They're wildly unqualified to make All right here's the

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question What is the bobinsky reflex in here A potential

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answers are Well as you may have guessed by the

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first word of literally every single answer that babin steve

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reflex deals with babies there are actually quite a few

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of these baby reflexes probably because people love watching babies

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even though they don't really do anything except with poop

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and yelling stuff But hey if we wanted to watch

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that we'd hang out with our great great grandfather Other

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examples of newborn reflexes or primitive reflexes to use the

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more formal title include route reflects suck reflex morro reflex

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tonic neck reflex grasp reflex step reflex and a bowflex

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max trainer m five well that last one isn't really

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reflects Absolutely just making sure you're listening So which of

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these is the bobinsky reflects well not sucking their thumbs

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as you might have guessed that one is the creatively

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names suck reflects and actually babies will suck anything that

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touches the roof of their mouth as well Any mammal

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really there's a reason doctors air stressed all the time

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it's because they can't get their tongue depressors back from

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patients It's also not answer d you might have thought

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he was the grasp reflex we mentioned earlier but the

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grasp reflex On ly deals with objects that stroke the

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palm it's sort of like a suck reflex of the

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hand and if you don't grow out of it it

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makes for some pretty awkward first dates that leaves answers

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a b and c We can eliminate me because it's

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not true Well it's not true about human babies Anyway

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Armadillo babies instinctively coil into their patented fear balls straight

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from birth but human babies actually extend their arms and

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legs wind startled and then cry a lot quick Psa

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if you're going to start a one always choose the

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armadillo so that leaves us with a and c cheeks

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or feet which one screams bobinsky on The answer is

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a named after the french neurologist josef bobinsky Bobinsky reflects

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describes the way babies will spread their toes in response

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to being stroked on the soul of their foot Looks

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like angsty teenagers aren't the only ones who can appreciate

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footloose maybe it's time for a little bobinsky bacon mash

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up What do you think I gotta cut loose footloose 00:02:24.07 --> [endTime] kick off my sunday booties

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