Essay For many years scientist wondered about the effects from limited limited social contact. Harry Harlow was a Psychologist who provided a new understanding of human behavior and development through studies of social behavior of rhesus monkeys. His research showed enormous amount of details that contribute to knowing more about clinical illnesses. Contact or touch is vital to attachment, learning, and emotional well-being. Genie a feral child showed that Harlow’s experiment was correct. For instance, Harlow’s research developed an enormous amount of detail that contributes to understanding important clinical illnesses by using monkeys. He proved that the universal needs contact. Harlow used a wire/cloth mother monkey which showed …show more content…
Young kids that are exposed to abuse, trauma, and neglect have a higher risk for psychological disorders and health promises. They also showed signs of disturbed from trouble eating, to rocking back and forth, and self mutilation. How a child is raised early on can have a huge effect on how they view the world. In this case, Genie was considered a feral child because of the abuse she underwent. At only twenty months, her father locked her up in a bedroom with a cage like crib and a potty chair that had restraints because he thought she was mentally challenged. If she made a noise, her father would hit her with a wooden board. Since she never had a lot of human contact, she never learned to speak. When they found her she had the cognitive skills of a baby and she had the weight of a six year old. Since Genie didn’t get the human contact she needed as a baby it affected her learning. She had nobody to show her how to walk, talk, eat and many other skills that are vital to learning basic needs. In conclusion, the world needs contact or touch to be able to learn basic needs that everyone needs to know. Henry’s experiment showed that humans and animals can’t handle being isolated and alone. Genie the feral child also proved that without contact humans can’t do basic things. Humans survive on human contact that is how they learn and if they don’t learn the basic needs than they don’t function
The cost, in this experiment, was the separation of a baby monkey from its mother. Also, it was forced to endure inhumane conditions by being frightened, not knowing what it did to deserve such treatment. I understand the positive implications that can result from experiments on animals, but only the tests that are absolutely necessary should be performed. In saying this, Harry Harlow crossed the line when he caused the baby monkeys psychological scarring. He had already collected definitive data from the previous wire and cloth mother tests, so this extra step was not called
However, the most clear and abundant effect of childhood trauma appeared to be behavioral problems. This was also the issue that often got covered up the most with “he/she is just a bad kid.” Like what was mentioned before, no kid is a bad kid. However, because the behavioral problems are what normally catches everybody’s eyes its normally what is caught first. Then you have the learning and emotional problems. Many people will often say that the child is slow or that they are sensitive, but many times there is so much more to the problem. There is a much larger problem lying in the background that often causes all the rest of the problems and it is not something that can just be brushed away with words like “lazy, slow, and sensitive.” The main problem must be directed head on that way we can potentially stop these negative effects and labeling that come from childhood
There are many feral children that we know of, and Genie is one of the greatest discussed today. Genie was born in 1957 in Arcadia, California. Almost from the time of birth, Genie wasn't treated very well. There are reports done from different psychologists, police officers, and welfare authorities that all report she was being abused, neglected, and isolated socially from outside communications. Genie was reported to L.A. Child Welfare around 1970.
Naturally, as human beings we need socialization to function. It has been stated that solitary confinement is inhumane because of the isolation one experiences. Albeit, the human races’ ability to socialize can be an asset as well as a hindrance. Being that humans have an innate capability to do positive but also negative things in the world, with no surprise socialization can turn out be a good thing or a bad thing. This can be seen in the three movies: “The Wild Child,” “The
Child abuse and neglect do not have a negative effect. Abuse is physical, verbal, psychological, sexual, neglect, and hate crimes. A child should never live in the darkness of their soul but live in the light of day with a life full of play. Ever since the early 1900’s children under the age of seventeen are raped and abused. Once a child is abused about thirty-five percent of rapists kill the child or young adult so that they can not tell on them for molesting or putting them in any kind of danger.
Child maltreatment is a global public health problem (Klika & Herrenkol, 2013). Children who have been maltreated tend to express more cortisol dysregulation (De Bellis, Woolley, & Hooper, 2013). Having this concern causes the children to express more stress than a child who has not been maltreated. According to De Bellis, Woolley, & Hooper (2013), pediatric studies have concluded that if a child is abused at a younger age and continuous neglect is associated they are more likely to suffer from smaller brain volumes and heightened biological stress chemicals. Being exposed to abusive trauma that leads to PTSD has shown to cause children to have higher levels of dissociative symptoms and more behavioral problems (De Bellis, Woolley, & Hooper, 2013). Children tend to mimic behaviors that are observed by their guardians or parents, and it is likely that at some point a child will express those same behaviors, but most likely in a different way. Being abused can often lead to a reenactment of that same attempt of punishment on the child’s future family.
The long-term impacts of child abuse and neglect can be detrimental. The victims of child abuse usually have a continuous pattern of mental disorders. These can include PTSD, depression, anxiety, low self-esteem, unhealthy relationships, lack of empathy, and even promiscuity. Not every victim of child abuse becomes an attacker, but most attackers tend to have been abused as children.
When a child is growing up it is essential to experience love and affection. If instead they are receiving the opposite, their behavior will change drastically. Not all children who experience child abuse will have behavioral problems but as a group the chances are very likely (Long Term Consequences of Child Abuse and Neglect). There are many problems that can occur over a child’s lifespan. For example, difficulties during adolescence, juvenile delinquency, adult criminality, alcohol, drug abuse, and other abusive behaviors. Poor mental health and emotional health are what causes most of the problems listed above. Some physiological problems are PTSD (Post Traumatic Stress Disorder), panic disorder, depression, anger, and reactive attachment
Berne discusses the role of social intercourse as a primitive form of behavior. As infants, humans learn to beckon the attention of others by engaging in attention engaging behaviors (i.e., crying). Once we have gained the attention of others, more often than not our basic human needs are satisfied and the cycle repeats when necessary. Biologically speaking, this type of distress response served an evolutionary purpose; the needs of a growing infant are met, thus ensuring the infant’s healthy development. Having a healthy infant usually translates into having a healthy adult which will in turn procreate and preserve the existence of the species.
Children that are being abuse and neglect have very low esteem, because of the mistreatment they receive from other individual. Some parents abuse and neglect their children, and cause them to have behavioral problem in school, home and even on the street. When children are at school, they are been bully, treat unfairly and also it cause them not to socialize with others. When they are at home parents verbally abuse them, truth name call or the use of indecent words. Also when they are on the street people look at them inappropriately and cause them to be in gangs.
Social isolation is one of the most severe punishments known to man. However, for one innocent girl, known as Genie, social isolation was all she knew. Genie was a nickname given to a feral 13-year-old girl who had been a victim of being severely abused and neglected by her parents, in her own house in Arcadia, California. Prior to Genie being discovered in 1970 by Los Angeles child welfare authorities, much of her life consisted of being locked alone in her room strapped to a potty chair or a crib resulting in her being immobile (Reynolds & Fletcher-Janzen, 2004). While Genie was locked away in her room she was never exposed to speech and would get beat for any noises she would make. Her father, Clark Wiley only interacted with her through barking and growling at her; as a result of this extreme isolation Genie missed the critical period to acquire language (Curtiss et al., 1974; Reynolds & Fletcher-Janzen, 2004). Immediately after Genie had been found she became a new subject for researchers to study and examine the theories of critical periods on humans to learn and understand language. Unfortunately, soon after Genie turned 18, her mother forbid any of the scientists from anymore testing and observations, which ultimately decreased any and all process Genie had made towards learning and understanding language.
Some years after I'd abandoned this line of thinking, resigned to the fact that the experiment could probably never be carried out in an ethically acceptable way, a college professor encouraged me to read Jerzy Kosinski's novel Being There. In this novel's main character, Chance, I found, after a fashion, an approximation of the very project I'd been dreaming about all those years: a human being raised in a static and unexciting environment, with very few other human influences.
Abuse in child can differ from physical, emotional, mental, sexual and neglect. The effects of child abuse vary between children these effects can be long lasting. Some of these problems can be psychological such as anxiety, depression, academic problems in school, withdrawn and difficulty connecting with others, and can even experience flashbacks and post-traumatic stress. They also have physical effects such as bruises, sprains, fractures, poor hygiene and inappropriate dress. Children living in an environment that is full of fear and violence develop poor coping skill some of these coping skills can be eating disorders, drug use risky sexual decision and self-harm. Some children fall into a cycle of abuse and become abusers themselves. Each child can experience one or more
The number one questions the surrounds the case of Genie Wiley is whether she was born mentally retarded or was this a result of her ten years in isolation from birth? This question can receive two different answers based on how you choose to perceive the nature or the nurture of another person. Genie did have the capacity to grow, just as Victor did in a similar study years ago in France. Once their isolation was removed, they began to civilize, which leads myself to believe that nurture took more part in the development in Genies behavior rather than a genetic disorder that her father seemed to believe she had.
When Genie the world’s most famous “feral child” was discovered, she didn’t how to speak, had no understanding of cultural norms or taboos, and was thought to be mentally handicapped. Until she was thirteen, Genie was raised in almost complete