SOC 100 Chapter Notes - Chapter 3: Blue-Collar Worker, Human Nature, Sigmund Freud
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How much of a person"s personality comes from. One way of attempting to answer this question is by examining identical twins that were raised in different environments. The other way is to study children who have had very little human contact. Feral children are children that have lived with no human contact. There have been very few examples of these children throughout history. Humans possess a biological heritage, but without language or culture people will not have speci c behaviours, attitudes, or values. The skeels/dye experiment took infants with below average intelligence and placed them in an environment where they received a lot of social stimulation. They then kept infants of average intelligence in an orphanage where they did not receive the same stimulation. Over two and half years, the below average infants gained 28 iq points, while the average infants lost 30 iq points. This showed that high intelligence depends on early, close relations with other people.
