Analysis: A Wild Child

There are roles that we humans participate in the social world have on our cognition, social, emotional, and personality development. Cognition explores the way we perceive, process, and retain information. We learn through language, observing events, and by watching others. The biggest social norms that are played important in our lives affects the way we think and react to situations that are presented to us every day. This affects our cognition, social, emotional, and personality development and it is how we are as humans because the social world has an effect on us.

To begin with, a psychologist Dorothy Dinnerstein identified seven features of human cognition, which are motivated, flexible focused, structured, layered, affectively tinged,

Our brain has the ability to transition from thinking about one concept to another. In the film, “ A Wild Child”, Victor is a boy who was found in the wilderness and was put in a completely new environment. Victor was able to adapt to the change immensely, he became more human as he entered civilization. Victor went through many changes in his life; he was put into an institute for the deaf because he wasn’t able to talk, he would just respond with noises and not words. Everyone saw Victor would look at him as a horrible wild creature and not human and this is where it addresses the humiliation and embarrassment of that process. A physician Jean-Marc Gaspard Itard took Victor out of the institute to have a connection with him and taught him how to speak, have a proper interaction with others, and enhance his cognitive abilities. This addresses the gains and benefits we reap by being social creatures in a social arena because in a matter of months Victor learned how to be a human. Victor learned how to care for Dr. Itard and his caregiver because they gave him the support and love Victor needed his whole life. This illustrates our dependence on the social

He states that intense therapy won’t work to gain back those memories as a child, especially those memories that are associated anxiety, trauma, and sexuality. Schactel talks about the impact the social world has on us because hostility of western civilization has an impact on us. It prepares us for productivity in society. We learn how to shift senses between proximal and distal. For example, children use touch, smell, and taste as their dominant and this is how they experience the world. We also assimilate and what this means is that there is a process where you try to match the perceptual world with existing