Monster's True Intent
The Monster’s True Intent
The monster study was an experiment conducted in Davenport, Iowa by a man named Wendell Johnson. At the time the experiment took place, it was thought that the speech impediment of stuttering was something you were either born with or not born with. Wendell on the other hand thought differently. He believed that it was something you could make worse or maybe you could cause people without stuttering issues, to start to stutter. He decided to test this buy taking in twenty-two orphan subjects and expiremnting on them to see if this was true. This expirment was to be ran by a lady by the name, Mary Tudor, her work was overseen and directed by Wendell.
Tudor took five orphans with speech impediments and put them into …show more content…
In group 2A there was a five year old girl by the name Norma Pugh. In the second session with Tudor, it was clear that she did not want to talk. Another child that was nine years old named Betty Romp actually refused to talk in general. These two kids were in the group that were fluent speaking but told that they were going to become stutterers if they did not fix these issues immediately. The kids in this group were afraid that if they were talking that they were going to start stuttering. They eventually started to struggle saying certain words. This proved to Tudor and Johnson that stuttering is actually something that can affect anyone if they are giving a certain type of reinforcement. Johnson started this experiment to prove that if a child is labeled as a stutterer, they could become a stutterer. This is was proven true because five of the six orphans in the group of fluent speakers that were given negative reinforcement, became …show more content…
During this test and experiment, he and Tudor used very reasonable samples for the testing. They used a variety of ages and genders in each group during the experiment. This allows them to make sure the results are valid and credible. If someone did not believe the results in his study, they probably could replicate the experiment with the information given. They are very thorough with the details on how they dealt with the orphans and the purpose of each group. The only thing that could have been better was the recording of the final data. The data
The monster study was an experiment conducted in Davenport, Iowa by a man named Wendell Johnson. At the time the experiment took place, it was thought that the speech impediment of stuttering was something you were either born with or not born with. Wendell on the other hand thought differently. He believed that it was something you could make worse or maybe you could cause people without stuttering issues, to start to stutter. He decided to test this buy taking in twenty-two orphan subjects and expiremnting on them to see if this was true. This expirment was to be ran by a lady by the name, Mary Tudor, her work was overseen and directed by Wendell.
Tudor took five orphans with speech impediments and put them into …show more content…
In group 2A there was a five year old girl by the name Norma Pugh. In the second session with Tudor, it was clear that she did not want to talk. Another child that was nine years old named Betty Romp actually refused to talk in general. These two kids were in the group that were fluent speaking but told that they were going to become stutterers if they did not fix these issues immediately. The kids in this group were afraid that if they were talking that they were going to start stuttering. They eventually started to struggle saying certain words. This proved to Tudor and Johnson that stuttering is actually something that can affect anyone if they are giving a certain type of reinforcement. Johnson started this experiment to prove that if a child is labeled as a stutterer, they could become a stutterer. This is was proven true because five of the six orphans in the group of fluent speakers that were given negative reinforcement, became …show more content…
During this test and experiment, he and Tudor used very reasonable samples for the testing. They used a variety of ages and genders in each group during the experiment. This allows them to make sure the results are valid and credible. If someone did not believe the results in his study, they probably could replicate the experiment with the information given. They are very thorough with the details on how they dealt with the orphans and the purpose of each group. The only thing that could have been better was the recording of the final data. The data