In what way do ferral children proivde evidence for the nature nurture debate?
The nature nurture debate has been one of the most contraversial debates since it was introduced in the 1870's by one of the first experimental psychologists Francis Galton. Since that time an increasing number of psychologists have become significantly interested in the nature nurture debate- like Galton they to have been trying to determine whether or not the way in which humans conduct themselves are inherited through their genes or if human kinds mannerisms are influenced by the enviroment in which they develop in.
There has been a multitudinous amount of research that endorses the hereditary, also known as the nature aspect of the nature nurture …show more content…
However, as the childs parents were alcoholics they had no regards for their childs wherabouts and one night to drunk to notice left their daughter outside. In a feebal attempt to find warmth the child who was 3 years old at the time crawled into the farm kennel and nested with the mongrel dog that is believed to have saved her life on that night. Although the dog helped the infant to survive her time spent with it had extreme conciquences. For the five years that followed the incident Miss Malia spent her time living as a dog. In an interview Anna Chalaya a Ukrane institute director said 'The purpose of speaking, she didn't think it was neccassery to speak at all'- when referring to the childs capabilities and attitudes towards general human behaviour. This is a particularly interesting example which favours the nuture part of the nature nurture debate. In recent studies it has been proven that a child is more than often likely to renact the mannerisms of those it is surrounded by.Therefore, as the child spent more time interacting with dogs than humans she began to mimick the way in which the dog behaved and become more like a dog than a