"Genie," the Little Girl Who Was Tragically Isolated Until Age

question 107

Multiple Choice

"Genie," the little girl who was tragically isolated until age 13:

• A) learned to speak, but only at the level of a 3- to 4-year old.
• B) could not learn to speak at all.
• C) learned language slowly, but eventually could speak normally.
• D) could only make very basic speech sounds.

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Definitions:

Biological Parents

The parents who contributed the genetic material to the creation of an offspring.

Adopted Children

Children who have become part of a family they were not born into, through a legal process.

Cause-and-Effect

The relationship between events where one or more are the result of the others, indicating a direct line of action and response.

Sensation

The process of receiving stimuli from the environment and the initial encoding into the nervous system.