Psychology 1000 Lecture : Discussion 3.docx

• School: Western University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: Psychology 1000
• Professor: Erica Lawson

Document Summary

The secret of the wild child is a video about a young girl named genie who was identified as a wild child and grew up in isolation from society. Genie was raised in extreme isolation for the first 13 years of her life. Almost her entire childhood was spent locked in a bedroom where she was tied to a potty chair and had grown up isolated and abused for over a decade. However, even though genie was 13 years old when she was found, her lack of human contact meant that she was only at an infantile level of development. When an individual has not been exposed to society or the experiences of daily life, it limits their ability to develop properly. The longer genie was left isolated from society in that room she developed more and more developmental issues.