PSY210H5 Lecture 7: PSY210 Lecture 7
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What can genie tell us about language development: nature, did not have correct input, perceptual narrowing process without input, hard for her to learn language after, critical periods are innate part of language development, cannot use case like genie because possible of developmental delay so cannot say failure in biology, did not have correct mechanisms to start with, nurture, she did not have right input, very little language input, abused for using language so not reinforced to produce sounds/language like sounds so did not develop language. Were the actions of the scientists ethical: unethical, pushed her past her limit (in terms of testing, repeated testing and not collecting good data from it, not using data they are collecting it because not doing it in a scientific way, so much repetition to point it does not become valid, difficult to draw conclusions because do not know starting point (did she have developmental disability to start with?)
