The Secret of the Wild Child is a documentary about a feral child referred to as Genie. Social workers found her tied to a potty chair in a bare room alone. They soon found out Genie was actually 13 years old‚ but she appeared much younger and was cognitively on the same level as a toddler. Psychologists and Doctors were faced with the controversial topic of nature vs nurture. Is Genie condition from her environment or was she born this way? And what is the best way for them to help her?
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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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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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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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The film “The Secret of the Wild Child” depicts the story of a girl‚ Genie‚ who was discovered in nineteen seventy after she had spent twelve years being locked in a room by herself. She lived in total social isolation‚ and did not have any cognitive and social skills that her age mates did. Her case was so interesting for psychologists‚ linguists‚ and other scientists. First of all‚ girl was placed in the hospital‚ later she lived in doctors’ apartments‚ guardian’s apartments‚ and with her mother
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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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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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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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The film “Secrets of the Wild Child” though very sad‚ was very educational and informative. After watching the film‚ it made me question a lot about language and how it is formed. Before watching the film I was curious as to how people acquired language. I know that the textbooks tell us that language is an innate trait‚ but how does one know that for sure? With the case of Genie‚ you really get a pure representation of someone who has been withheld from interactions with other humans and has had
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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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