It is about the unconscious and automatic reaction as the body's response to an external stimulus. There are different types of reflections; An example of this is closing the palm of the hand when feeling some pressure from an entity other than one's own, something common in newborns, who lose this when they reach four months of life. It is a primitive reflex, which are present only in babies, some being found such as sucking, given at the time of being fed by the mother, the parachute reflex and the plantar grasp, similar to the palmar grasp. If these types of reactions are still present during the growth of the child, they may be symptoms of a disease.
In addition to those previously mentioned, there are the osteotendinous, which contain the categories of bicipital, tricipital, styloradial, patellar, achillian, mediopubian, nasopalpebral, superciliary and masseterine reflex; flexion reflexes, manifested by experiencing pain; the vegetative reflexes, which originate in the bone and are responsible to operate correctly are unconscious of the body functions such as breathing, blinking, blush and others; conditioned reflexes are those that are acquired, through living new experiences, by having submitted to a certain situation that generates automatic responses; finally, pathological reflexes are those that are part of the symptomatic picture of a medical condition.
In the same way, reflection is also the term used to define the act in which one object projects its image onto another; This normally occurs because the entity in which the article is reflected has transparency and a shine, which is capable of capturing the image of what is around it. A common example of this is the reflection present in the water, in which you can see anything in your environment.