Psychology 1000 Midterm: Pscyh Term Test #3.docx

• School: Western University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: Psychology 1000
• Professor: Dr.Mike

Document Summary

Chapter 9: victor was a child discovered by hunters who was isolated from human contact for 12 years, he could make sounds and walk up straight, he was considered the wild boy of averyon and was sent to paris for training with a prominent physician, genie was a 13 year old who was isolated in a locked room for almost all her life, she never got the ability to string words together, dominique was 5 years old and had been abused: locked in the basement, once being rescued she received language training from a university and was soon able to acquire a number of mental abilities and seemed quite capable of fully acquiring language, humans communicate more effectively and think better than other animals, we have the ability to create mental representations of the world and to manipulate them in the forms of language, thinking, reasoning, and problem solving, mental representations: include images, concepts, ideas, and principles.