PSY100H1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 9: Harry Harlow, Object Permanence, Behaviorism

• School: UTSG
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSY100H1
• Professor: Ashley Waggoner Denton

Document Summary

Lifespan development: childhood development, adult development, old-age development. Genie"s case study (feral child: discovered when she was 13 years of age, reporters thought she was 7 years, was denied basic human interactions. Parents had mental health problems, and subjected her to isolation in a closed dark room tied to a chair. Brother and mother could not talk to her: could not speak in coherent english has she had not been able to learn from communication. Sensory capability had been nulled as she had not been exposed to a variety of physical experiences. Since she had not been exposed to any developmental experiences by the age of 13, it was next to impossible for her to develop proper reactions to different/some stimulus. She could not learn language or proper social interactions, although she was taught some throughout her rehabilitation: researches being to believe there is a certain developmental or learning age in which the child learns and develops the most.