The Monster Study By Wendell Johnson And Mary Tudor

The Monster Study was conducted by Wendell Johnson and Mary Tudor at the University of Iowa in Davenport, in 1939. The experiment was on 22 orphan children. They were separated into 2 groups, a control group and an experimental group, and they were tested on. The control group was given positive speech therapy, while the experimental group was given negative speech therapy. The children were told that they were stuttering and were misprized about their speech defects. Many of the children who were given negative feedback were examined to have physiological issues as well as speech issues throughout their life. The experiment was given its name by Johnson’s peers who named it the Monster Study for its terrible concept. This can be related to