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What were your thoughts and feelings while watching this video? How can Genie's case help us understand human behavior? What questions do you have about her case?

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after watching this video, I thought that it was absurd that someone could even put a child through such a traumatizing experience like that. I felt very scared and upset for the girl who had to face a lot of issues after the whole experience. Genie's case can help us understand human behavior and human interaction by showing us a real example of what it is like to be ignored or not interacted with and what the side affects are because of it. one question I have about this case is how come no one heard or knew about this before she was already a teen?

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While I was watching this video, I realized that the behavioral perspective of psychology plays a big role on how people grow mentally. All of our senses (taste, smell, sight, hearing, touch) matter and exposure is very important for humans because every little experience causes our brains to develop. I also think it's concerning how things like Genie's case is pretty common today.

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After finishing this video, I was shocked at the fact that Genie was 13 and had practically no verbal skills and could barely walk. It disgusted me that someone could have been treated like this. Genies case can help us understand that humans need nurture in order to grow intellectually. Furthermore, her case shows us the younger the neglect begins the more prevalent it becomes in a person. In Genie's case this neglect and maltreatment resulted in her becoming an inefficient learner.

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I was pretty uncomfortable watching the video, it was shocking to know that people could be "raised" like that. Genie's case can shed light on the effects of abuse and isolation during critical developmental years. We can now see that in cases of extreme child neglect, some parts of the left brain can become smaller and less functional, providing more research for biological psychology.

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While watching the video, I was shocked that someone was living this while someone else was living a totally different or conventional life. It is sad to know that she was in total isolation for the majority of her life. Her case can help us understand human behavior because she was not influenced by the society or culture at all. She can help us understand how the brain develops and help us debunk certain hypotheses.

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This was a very concerning video and hard to believe this was a real story. This video makes it very clear that psychoanalytical  dynamic is very real and since the man had a traumatic experience as a child and he acted out as an adult. Also, Genie was completely isolated and had no skills at 13. This proves that your experiences and the people around you change how one reacts. How did they get away with keeping their child in isolation for so long?

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While I watched the video, I was shocked to see parents treating a child like this, while the people around her had to idea and continued on with there normal life. Her case can help science understand the human brain and the importance of exposure and education to children at a young age.

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While I was watching the video, I felt very upset and sick about what had happened to her. It isn't right for people to abandon their children this way and it showed due to her extreme neglect, she couldn't learn how to walk or speak. Overall it shows that people need to be with others and grow so they can grow both physically and mentally.

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This video was really hard to watch because I think of all the memories and things that helped me develop and then I thought of her and realized she never got any of that. I remember watching a video of someone who went through the same thing and it blows my mind how her entire life was a secret until 13 years later. her story helps show us what society does to ones mind.

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after watching the video, I felt very sick to my stomach because the life that Genie was forced into was just so sad. No child should ever have to grow up with abuse or isolation. Genie's case helps us understand human behavior because it proves the theory that children while they are young need to learn language and specific basic skills, or else they are doomed for the rest of their life. My question now is did she ever learn how to speak correctly?

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While watching the video I was remembering what I had learned in brain studies last year and hearing about the language part of your brain developing so much by the time you are 3 it was really cool to watch Genie overcome that statistic and prove that she could still nurture that part of her brain.

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I was shocked that parents could do that to their child. Genies case can help us see that children need to learn at a young age in order to grow properly. I wonder if she hates her parents?

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I was very shocked on how she was treated to start with as a kid and how she was bounced around when she got older. Genies case can help us see that children at a young age need help to grow and develop certain skills you need in life, learning words, talking with someone, grammer, walking. We are now able to see what happens to younger kids when these things aren't applied. We know what can happen if these skills aren't taught at a young age and if they aren't right away, the small window they have to teach before the brain can't take it anymore. One question I have is what eventually happened to her, like how did her story end?

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This video was hard for me to watch because I can’t imagine anyone going through this or doing this to someone else. Her lack of contact with humans and the outside world led her to not be able to talk and she barely knew how to walk. This helped scientists discover that there is an age where the brain can’t process learning how to speak.

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I felt really bad for Genie because I can't even imagine what being in that situation would be like. It was interesting to me that she was so good with vocabulary, but couldn't seem to master grammar. I kind of take language for granted, and this put a lot into perspective for me.

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The video was very heartbreaking and sickening to watch. The thought of a parent keeping their child isolated from the world is disgusting and never should have happened. Genie can help understand human behavior because she proved that there are critical time periods in a child's life where they should learn certain things. SInce her brain was underdeveloped Genie would never be able to form complete sentences.

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This video was hard to watch. I felt so bad for Genie and wanted her to be safe. It was also a little scary to imagine that this type of mistreatment was even possible to inflict on a child.

Genie's case allowed us to see that there is a physical difference in the way the brain develops in cases of neglect. It also showed that language is something you have to be exposed to during a critical period.

Questions: How was it legal to send Genie back to her abuser/that house?

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while watching this video, it was very heart breaking and hard to watch. The fact they ordered the family never to talk to her and the dad had denied the isolation of genie at the end... is just sickening. She's only 13 years old with the size of a 6 year old body. She was kept in her house isolated by her parents and never learned to walk, or talk. They even strapped her to a potty chair during the day. It was like she was in prison. genie's case can help us understand how at a young age, if you aren't exposed to everyday things to help you develop skills, you can't function. They need to have necessities in life at young ages to function mentally and physically. My question is why was it legal to send her back to that house? even with everything? and what is she doing now, what is happening in present day.

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This video was so heartbreaking to me because Genie was just a child.  She had no control and the people who are supposed to make her safe were the ones who abused her.

Genie's case helps us understand that nurture contributes strongly to human behavior.  Because she was never exposed to speech or movement, the left part of her brain basically died because it never got used.

One question I have is why was Genie forced to move back in with her mother and in the same house? Even though she was young, all of the those horrid memories probably negatively affected her.

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This video was very hard to watch because it was awful to see what was happening to her. She should have never gone through this traumatic experience. It was surprising to see that no one in her family tried to help her and were all okay with isolating her. Genie's case can help us understand human behavior because she was the living proof that people need to be in a good physical and mental state of mind at a young age. If not they can have many problems that sometimes can't be fixed. Kids need to have a good support system and people that care about them at an early age in order to have good brain development and learn new things. One question I have is how is she doing now?

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The video was a tough watch to see that her parents neglected her which is sad itself and then for someone that young to have mental problems while she still has a life to live ahead of her.
Her case can help us understand the psychological effects and behaviors a human has when they are neglected and in Genie's case, this would be a problem that changes her life permanently, so I think its safe to say that the way the brain develops at a young age and the way a young mind sees the world at a young age can mean a lot to the person for the rest of their lives.

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I felt really bad for her watching the video and hearing about the horrible things that she went through. Her case helps us differentiate nurture vs nature and how connections in the brain form. With out learning to speak, Genie's brain never continued making the proper connections to develop. I really do wonder how she is doing now and if modern care has maybe improved her quality of life?

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I felt really bad for her watching the video and hearing about the horrible things that she went through. Her case helps us differentiate nurture vs nature and how connections in the brain form. With out learning to speak, Genie's brain never continued making the proper connections to develop. I really do wonder how she is doing now and if modern care has maybe improved her quality of life?

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- Dominik Wcislo

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I was very interested with the effects Genie felt throughout her life that were caused by her parents mistreatment. I could not understand any reason why the parents would treat her like that besides that they were mentally insane. I also thought the explanation of how she was strapped to the toilet was insane and is one of the most cruel methods of torture I have ever heard or watched about.

One thing I was wondering is if Genie understand what she was doing while she was living with her parents. I wonder if she understood that the toilet is for waste, not just the place she lives during the day.

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Although this was informative for me it was hard for me to watch. I cannot imagine me or anyone I know going through this. Genies case showed that the brain stops learning certain things after an age. Scientists tried to teach Genie to speak and to walk, but she was past the age of learning these tasks. other tasks could be easier or possible to learn at her age, but sadly in her case she was past the age for talking and walking.