Genie (feral child)
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- Created on: 20-11-13 21:25
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- Genie
- Situation before she was found
- Age 4: Genie became ill
- Taken to doctor -> parents told Genie had possible signs of retardation
- Couldn't check due to Genie's fever
- Father used this as justification for Genie's later treatment
- Taken to doctor -> parents told Genie had possible signs of retardation
- Genie's grandma died -> Genie's father became bitter
- Moved family into the grandma's house -> began isolating the family
- Genie became completely isolated
- Moved family into the grandma's house -> began isolating the family
- Genie was tied to the potty chair in the day and her crib at night
- Little stimulation, father and brother did not speak to her, mother eventually became blind and also stopped talking to Genie; beaten for making noise (eventually was silent),
- Subjected her to this ritual ill-treatment in an attempt to 'protect' her
- Said to be a normal baby, normal development for first 6 months
- Father didn't like Genie -> wouldn't let mother spend much time with Genie
- Father promised mother that she could seek help for Genie if Genie lived to 12
- When Genie reached 12, he went back on his promise
- At 13, Genie's parents had a huge argument and Genie's mother took her to get help from a welfare worker
- Police were contacted, parents charged with child abuse
- Genie was submitted to hospital -> severe malnutrition
- Police were contacted, parents charged with child abuse
- At 13, Genie's parents had a huge argument and Genie's mother took her to get help from a welfare worker
- When Genie reached 12, he went back on his promise
- Age 4: Genie became ill
- How privation affected her development
- Scored as low as a one year old on a maturity test
- Made very little sound
- Could only understand her own name and the word 'sorry'
- No internal working model for attachment
- Not:
- Able to stand upright
- Able to chew properly
- Toilet trained
- Able to stop drooling
- Able to socialise
- Able to speak
- Able to cry
- Able to focus her eyes on anything more than 10 feet away
- Development once found
- 1973: Genie's articulation began improving
- !974: The Riglers helped Genie learn ASL
- If she could not express herself in language, she would act out or draw the message she wanted to get across
- According to Curtiss:
- Begun to develop language by October 1971
- Only began to use two word phrases after gaining a vocab of around 200 words
- Children usually start two word phrases around the time of knowing 50 words
- After she moved in with the Riglers, she began to use negative forms of language
- Two months later, Genie began listening to people even when they weren't talking to her
- Genie was soon able to use words for colours, sizes and qualities
- Strengths/ Weaknesses
- Strengths
- Very in-depth look into something that could never ethically be re-created
- The intense education given to her after she was found gave her the opportunity to develop her brain enough to function to some standard in society
- Not many strengths as outcome was negative
- Weaknesses
- Unlikely to ever be repeated -> 'The Forbidden Experiment'
- Don't know if she had any learning disabilities before her abuse
- Experiments were not done in a systematic way -> few results published
- Retrospective data
- Genie may have had innate psychological problems
- A series of careers meant Genie lacked a stable base
- Strengths
- Experiments done as part of the case study
- Interviews with Genie's mother
- Reports from the psychiatry division in the children's hospital
- Videotapes
- Observations of Genie's speech
- Psychological testing
- Tape recordings
- Language tests
- Neurological tests
- Work with written language
- Situation before she was found
- Not:
- Able to stand upright
- Able to chew properly
- Toilet trained
- Able to stop drooling
- Able to socialise
- Able to speak
- Able to cry
- Able to focus her eyes on anything more than 10 feet away
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