ANTA01H3 Lecture Notes - Subliminal Stimuli, David Reimer, Language Development
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David reimer at 8 months, bruce reimer had his circumcision and it went wrong his penis was destroyed. John money recommended that his parents raise him as a female named brenda . Money believed gender to be a matter of socialization, but failed to tell the mother that this had never been proven after years of feeling wrong brenda discovered the truth. David reimer faced deep psychological issues (and depression), eventually committing suicide. Genie was a 12 year old isolate. Many psychologists wanted to study her learning and language acquisition skills since she started so late in life as she was an isolate and was neglected by her parents and locked in a room. While she stayed in the hospital, her psychologist became her surrogate parent a year later, she moved in with her teacher jean butler, who kept genie away from the other members studying genie.
