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basic reflex

any of the infant reflexes of sucking, eye movement, grasping, and sound orientation. According to Piagetian theory, basic reflexes are a feature of the first substage of the sensorimotor stage, in which infants know the world only in terms of their inherited action patterns.

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centile

n. a shortened name for percentile.