Nature versus Nurture
The controversial debate that has been present for several years is whether behaviors are inherited traits or are they influenced by the environment. The early stages of growth are fundamentally crucial for children because they need human contact, affection, and interaction to fully develop a sense of self and be fully integrated into society. During the first years of a child’s life, they ought to socialize with members of the micro level and form part of the educational system. The case of Genie the Wild Child is a great example of the consequences of absence of important events of development during critical periods. The absence of proper socialization during those critical periods caused Genie to develop differently …show more content…
Genie walked in an inhuman way, she couldn’t speak, she was silent for the most part, the psychologists deduced that she was physically punished for making noise. However, after receiving treatment from her doctors, she began to improve, her speech increased each year and soon began to dress herself and use the toilet, but it was not sufficient for a girl her age. When the NIMH withdrew funding’s from the research, Genie was moved with her mother but that did not work either, thus she moved to fosters homes where she was subjected to more abuse and neglect that caused her to regress back to the way she was, her improvements were …show more content…
Cooley, the self is shaped by interactions with others from the time of birth. Cooley depicts the looking glass self as “a process that develops the-self based on the reactions of others” (Ballantine, Korgen, & Roberts, 2015). First, we imagine how people see us, then people judge our appearance and respond to us, lastly we interpret how others respond to us, thus we react to the feedback. Isolated children like Genie the wild child lack a sense of self and acceptable behavior because they did not interact with others during the critical periods in life and had no one to demonstrate them how a person must behave to be normally accepted in
The controversial debate that has been present for several years is whether behaviors are inherited traits or are they influenced by the environment. The early stages of growth are fundamentally crucial for children because they need human contact, affection, and interaction to fully develop a sense of self and be fully integrated into society. During the first years of a child’s life, they ought to socialize with members of the micro level and form part of the educational system. The case of Genie the Wild Child is a great example of the consequences of absence of important events of development during critical periods. The absence of proper socialization during those critical periods caused Genie to develop differently …show more content…
Genie walked in an inhuman way, she couldn’t speak, she was silent for the most part, the psychologists deduced that she was physically punished for making noise. However, after receiving treatment from her doctors, she began to improve, her speech increased each year and soon began to dress herself and use the toilet, but it was not sufficient for a girl her age. When the NIMH withdrew funding’s from the research, Genie was moved with her mother but that did not work either, thus she moved to fosters homes where she was subjected to more abuse and neglect that caused her to regress back to the way she was, her improvements were …show more content…
Cooley, the self is shaped by interactions with others from the time of birth. Cooley depicts the looking glass self as “a process that develops the-self based on the reactions of others” (Ballantine, Korgen, & Roberts, 2015). First, we imagine how people see us, then people judge our appearance and respond to us, lastly we interpret how others respond to us, thus we react to the feedback. Isolated children like Genie the wild child lack a sense of self and acceptable behavior because they did not interact with others during the critical periods in life and had no one to demonstrate them how a person must behave to be normally accepted in