Genie

In class we were asked to read and summarize three blog posts on the Advances in the history of Psychology’s website. I decided to read and summarize the following blog entries: “After the Asylum/Après l’asile”, “Starved, tortured, forgotten: Genie, the feral child who left a mark on researchers”, and “APA out of Guantánamo.” The post “After the asylum discusses one of the biggest changes in our society regarding mental health and institutes during the late 20th century in Canada. The blog…

that the father believed there was a reasonable purpose of treating Genie the way he did by the letter he left before killing himself, “the world will never understand” (Cherry, 2016, August 20). Maybe he thought that he could conduct some sort of research with her daughter.…

communication skills. In the case of Genie, a thirteen-year-old girl who had grown up in isolation for over eleven years did not develop language or communication skills. On November 4 of 1970, Genie’s mother had sought help for public assistance. While social workers were looking into the case, they had uncovered…

was allowed contact with Genie for no more than a few minutes per day, and only under her husband’s supervision. Otherwise, Wiley was the only person whom Genie saw for most of her childhood years (Curtiss, Fromkin, Krashen, Rigler, & Rigler, 1974). On November 4, 1970, 13-year-old Genie came to the attention of a social worker when the near-blind Irene sought disability benefits and took Genie along with her. The social worker believed that something was wrong with Genie, and after visiting the…

Case studies of isolated children have supported the critical period hypothesis. These children who are exposed to language later in life, have shown extreme deficits in phonology, morphology and syntax. The best known is the case of Genie, a girl who was locked in a room where she had minimal human contact, particularly with her mother. She was punished by her father if she was to make any noises or sounds. She was discovered at the age of 13 and placed in a normal linguistic environment. When…

and more with each wild child we discover. Peter was repelled and treated as if he were a pet, where Genie was taken in by doctors and researchers and loved by them. She was taught, not just tossed aside and sent away as was done to Peter. Though she never learned how to properly speak, she was capable of sign language and learned to show clear emotions, while Peter never learned to speak. Genie was taken back under the care of her mother, and Peter was left to wander on his own. I believe that…

came a fog. Within a few seconds, a genie appeared, and he told him his name was Zaki. He was released from that bottle after two decades of being locked in by his own brother, Zarrar. He was thankful to Peter and told him that he would grant him three wishes, but only after he had taken revenge on his brother. Two days passed, but Peter still didn’t hear back from Zaki. He still had…

For this assignment I have chosen to compare the difference between and round character and flat character. Flat characters are characters who are very simple. Generally within a story, there is not much development for these characters. They are called flat because there is no depth within them. Their motives or attitudes do not change in the story. An example of this are the mean sisters in the story of Cinderella. They dislike and treat Cinderella poorly, however we are not given a specific…

she does not wish for anything. On the road to get to know each other and as the Genie learns that Hazel has no gap in her life that could be filled with wishes, they sit down and talk about their pasts. “We wound up in a public park, sitting on a bench by a lake” (Gaiman). The Genie found out about Hazel’s past, and Hazel found out about the war that the genie had experienced. While they sat by the lake, the genie found out what made Hazel’s values from her past. This was an important step to…

The story of a wild child is a touching documentary about a girl that has been mentally and physically abused by her biological father, it is about the beginning life of Genie Wiley. The sad story is about a girl that has been locked in dark room since she was a child, for over a decade Genie spent her life there sitting on a potty chair for most of her time in that house, this is something inhumane to do to a living being, it took social workers a while to find that poor girl, she was thirteen…