Susan Wiley (‘Genie’) * Genie was discovered on 4th November 1970 in Los Angeles. * The thirteen year old girl had been confined to a small room and spent most of her life often tied to a potty chair. * The girl was given the name Genie to protect her identity and privacy. "The case name is Genie. This is not the person’s real name‚ but when we think about what a genie is‚ a genie is a creature that comes out of a bottle or whatever‚ but emerges into human society past childhood. We assume
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THE STORY OF GENIE Genie is the name used for a feral child discovered by a social worker in Los Angeles‚ California. From the age of twenty months Genie’s father chained her to a potty-chair and isolated her in a room. When she was found‚ she was severely malnourished and almost mute. When her case brought some interest to scientists‚ she became the focus of an investigation to discover if there was a critical age for the development of language in children. Since then Genie has been staying
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Genie Wiley suffered for ten years in severe isolation with virtually no human contact. By the age of thirteen she still wore diapers and communicated in a form similar to an infant. Due to the extreme neglect and the lack of socialization Genie may never be able to join society with a full command of language. But after watching the documentary I learned how important socialization is to human development. I say this because during the video Stacy Keach stated that Eric Lenneberg agreed that we’re
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Sources used as related texts for belonging - mina mirzakhani 1) Name of Source – Wild Child (2008 film) Name of Composer – Nick Moore Brief Synopsis - In a wild prank with her friends‚ Poppy Moore ruins all her father’s girlfriend’s belongings. When her father angrily arrives‚ he tells her that he is sending her to boarding school in England. How it relates to Belonging – Poppy doesn’t belong in her normal affluent teenage life in California and gets sent to a posh all girls school in England
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The Wild Child In basic psychology classes‚ students will cover the main principles of language and communication development. To help validate the concept of what is known as the Critical Period Hypothesis‚ the disturbing case of Genie Wiley is used as an example. The critical exposure period describes that children from ages between four months and five years old have the best ability to understand phonemes and morphemes‚ as well as incorporating these into their own proper speech; however‚ from
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of a person’s life. Genie just like any other child had environmental factors play in the development of her life‚ which permanently changed the way that Genie lives to this day. Humans just like animals all have to adapt to the environment that they live in‚ that environment changes and so does the animal in order for them to survive. Environmental factors played big key roles in the development of my life and every other human being on this planet. In late of 1970‚ Genie a young thirteen-year-old
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potsherds‚ bones‚ and broken bottles * Forth cast: found a silver box‚ containing‚ Afrits‚ the genie * The fisherman is portrayed as a god fearing individual. Out of respect for his god‚ he bestows a form of blessing before and after he casts his net. * The moral of the story is what you do upon others‚ others will do upon you. ("Spare me‚ so god may spare thee; and do not kill me‚ lest god kill thee:) * The genie is delineated as a huge/ candle eyed creation who grew impatient in his vessel (That was
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A Psycholinguistics Report on Genie Alyssa Conard Psycholinguistics Class April 9‚ 2012 Page 1 Discovered in November 1970‚ Genie is presumably the most thoroughly researched case history of a feral child. From ages 2 and a half to 13 and a half‚ Genie’s father isolated her to a room constrained in a homemade harness on a potty seat. On nights she wasn’t forgotten‚ Genie would be put into a sleeping bag fashioned into a sort of straitjacket‚ and laid into a crib covered with chicken
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first of all how a person could go undetected in those conditions for that amount of time. It 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
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Review Questions Describe the case of Genie. What happened to her? Why is this case important? The case of Genie is about how a little toddler had an extreme isolation in her earliest months‚ it is likely how she was restrained and reflected. Genie was kept in a back bedroom tied to a toilet chair for twelve years. She received a stimulation of any kind and was only given baby food to eat. Genie was discovered when she was a preteen. They have noticed that she couldn’t talk or understand any language
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