Genie's Case

Genie was highly unloved with no nurturing in her life for 13 years, she was barked at like a strange enemy, beaten, starved and isolated. According to the aforementioned theory, this played an impressive role in Genies cognitive development as it is social interaction and nurturing that fires off signals to the cells in our brain to react and learn appropriate social skills and speech. On the other side, we have nature which means that it was possible that Genie’s mother passed down the traits that impacted Genies brain development, but if that is the case, then anger should have been passed down from her father as that is also an inherited trait. Anger affects the levels of dopamine, a brain chemical linked to anger it can be assumed that