Genie‚ the second case of wild child was found in a room tied to a potty chair. Genie was kept in a room locked away because her father thought she was retarded at birth until the age of 13‚ when she was rescued by a social worker. She was locked away from normal civilization and any type of socialization‚ and she was beaten for making noises. Genie was an infant trapped in a 13 year old body‚ because she could only make infant like sounds and no words or sentences. Genie’s brain waves were adnormal
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was also extremely mind boggling how people could treat their own child like that‚ which really made me wonder the type of morals and views that those parents were brought up with. It made me extremely sad to realize all of the wonders of life that Genie was deprived of. She had been locked in that room for over ten years‚ which means she was practically nonexistent to the world‚ and had never experienced things we all take for granted every day. I truly do not know how she survived in that type of
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The word ‘Hypothesis is derived from a Greek word‚ which means ‘to suppose’. It is usually considered as the principal instrument in research. For a researcher it is a formal question that he or she intends to resolve. In this way a hypothesis may be defined as a proposition or a supposition. The main function of hypothesis is to guide the collection and processing of materials and direct the research. Hypothesis is a tentative conclusion. It is facts based theory. A research scholar will analyze
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Genie the Wild Child 1) A case study is when researchers conduct in-depth investigations of individuals or of small groups. The EX POST FACTO method is an experimental research process‚ where the researcher manipulates the independent variable‚ while the dependable variable is controlled with the aim of establishing the effect of the independent variable on the dependable variable. There are many advantages and disadvantages to case studies. An advantage is that it can provide insight to specific
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Step 1: Step 2: The alternative hypothesis is which indicates a one tail test. The degrees of freedom (df) = n-2=12-2=10. The t value at the significance level of .05 and df of 8 and from appendix F is 1.812. The decision rule is to reject the null hypothesis because the test statistic is greater then 1.812. Step 3: According to Appendix F‚ we can assume that P 1.744)‚ there is insufficient evidence to reject the null hypothesis. P-value Approach: Since the P-value is less
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Critical Period The critical point in a developing fetus falls roughly within the 5th week and the 6th month. This period is defined as the critical period because beginning around the 5th week tissue begins to differentiate. This specialized tissue starts developing from the top down. Specialized tissues begin forming limbs and digits from the top of the fetus and working its way down to its limbs. Any agent that causes a birth defect is called a teratogen. Teratogens can vary from chemicals
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Genie is socially‚ cognitively and physically developmentally delayed. Due to her severe isolation she has never learned to vocalize. Although she can visualize it is as if she has no sight due to the severe confinement she experienced. She displays physical oddities including walking like a bunny and spitting‚ due to her incapability to chew. For these ten years of lonely imprisonment‚ Genie lived a severely malnourished lifestyle. Improper meals were forced into her body prohibiting Genie from
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step 2: The hypothesis Answer the following questions: * What is a hypothesis? * How is a hypothesis different from a theory in science? * Describe an example of how you may use the scientific method in your daily life and state a good hypothesis for that example. * Which hypothesis did you first pick in the "Recognizing a good hypothesis" activity in the scientific method tutorial? Why? If any‚ which mistake(s) did you make when picking a hypothesis? A hypothesis is a specific
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Genie: A Scientific Tragedy analyzes the psychological journey of a child whom had been severely deprived of socialization in addition to unethical maltreatment. The novel examines the actions taken to try and potentially aid Genie in integrating herself into our common civilization‚ if that was even possible. Genie had spent her whole young life until she was thirteen years old stuck in isolation. Her father‚ Clark‚ had taken it upon himself to protect Genie from the outside world when he had learned
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bond between the mother and child as being innate to ensure the survival. With this whole debate full of facts on both sides we just cant say someone is the way they are because of Nurture or Nature. But in two cases both about isolation the famous Genie the wild child and a
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