Life Span Human Development II Writing Assignment 1 Angela Collins-Salboro Psychology 231 Dr. Winona Fleenor June 15‚ 2011 Part I When a child is born it is very important part of its life to have human contact. This is what has happen to what the experts have called “The Wild Child”. However instead of human contact they have had contact with animals that have adopted them into their pack. It could have been by dogs‚ monkeys‚ wolfs or even bears. Some children are lost in the woods
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Susan “Genie” Wiley‚ otherwise known as the “Feral Child” was born April 18th‚ 1957. She was a child of abuse‚ isolation‚ and neglect by the people who surrounded her during her very sheltered life. The environment that Genie was subjected to was a lonely one. For most of her life she was limited to one bedroom in the household and was affixed to a chamber pot that allowed for little movement‚ essentially complete isolation. Her caregivers—or lack of was her father and mother who she lived with along
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Case 1: Genie The Wild Child. Genie was locked in a room for 13 years and she lacked social skills and didn’t form any type of language skills. She was essentially feral. She didn’t show any behaviors of being human. Due to being locked and shut out from socialization she
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Genie lived 13 years of her life in a Los Angeles suburb with her mother‚ her father and her older brother. When Genie was one‚ her Grandmother on her father’s side died and they all moved into her old house. Her father insisted they leave his mothers room untouched even though this meant they all had to sleep in the living room. All except Genie who was given the back room. This room wasn’t furnished or decorated and was away from the rest of the house. During the day time Genie was kept tied
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Itard‚ The Wild Child is a movie made in 1970‚ with a setting in France from the18th century‚ and based on a child who had lived in nature his whole life without any human contact. Itard‚ a well known French doctor for working with deaf-mutes‚ had taken in this feral child under his care for the purposes of his studies on the child’s intellectual and social education. Given the time period of the movie Itard had taken the "wild-child" in under his own care‚ and helped teach the child to be more
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extent of a normal adult (Curtiss‚ 1977). In the 1970s a controversial case of a thirteen-year old girl‚ Genie‚ who had spent her entire life completely isolated from anyone (Curtiss‚ 1977). She was found severely malnourished and carried herself like a bunny (Curtiss‚ 1977). Genie’s mother‚ who had been in contact with her‚ stated that she could understand a few words (Curtiss‚ 1977). The child was admitted to the hospital and after several months underwent intense linguistic observation and investigation
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GENIE It is hard for most of us to even imagine being locked in a bedroom for thirteen years—strapped to a potty chair and being physically abused. Unfortunately‚ social isolation‚ such as this‚ does affect many innocent children. Studies have proven that social isolation can have devastating effects on a child’s life. A feral child‚ referred to as Genie‚ spent nearly the first thirteen years of her life locked in a bedroom strapped to a potty chair. She was a victim of one of the most severe
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Genie: A Scientific Tragedy Genie tells the story of a 13 year old girl who was secluded throughout her childhood years and into her teens with little or no stimulation. In the book‚ we see how the scientists and linguists tried to help her understand the world around her and interact with people around her. The linguists tried to get her to speak and express her emotions instead of gesturing or pointing every time she needed something. According to the linguists and scientists that studied her
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The movie Wild Child written by Lucy Dahl and directed by Nick Moore is a hilarious movie based on a Malibu princess who thinks everything revolves around her. The relationship between the characters Poppy Moore (Emma Roberts) and her father Gerry Moore (Aidan Quinn) is very a modern day relationship just like one most teens will have with their father. Poppy always thinks she is right and believes she can overrule her father. Poppy only has her father to depend on‚ as she was little her mother
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thirteen years of their life? Two case studies in the past showed how children would act with no interaction from other people. One child was a boy named Victor and the other was a girl named Genie. Both of the children did have similarities‚ but they also had many differences. These two children had many similarities. In each case each one was referred to as a wild child. Neither of the children were found until after they had hit puberty‚ which is suppose to be the cut off for learning to speak. When
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