answer all please and Thank you COGNITIVE PSYCHOLOGY 288 (Fall 2017) Assignment

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answer all please and Thank you

COGNITIVE PSYCHOLOGY 288 (Fall 2017) Assignment Secret of the Wild Child", Nova Video https://vimeo.com/65190917 Important: Credit and reference your sources! Due: Wednesday, Nov 29th, by class time Bring a hard copy to class and/or Submit via Blackboard Short-Answer Questions (1 pt. each) (Minimum: 4 sentences, maximum: 1 paragraph; Use APA style) 1. What does the Critical Period Hypothesis (sometimes called the Sensitive Period Hypothesis) state? Who proposed it? 2. Why was Genie's case so important for language researchers? 3. Who was the scientist in charge of studying Genie's language development? Describe what this person did to teach Genie language skills. 4. Why did Genie's psychotherapists switch to teaching her sign language? 5. In the end, what did the scientists involved in evaluating Genie conclude? 6. What happened to Genie after the period of her life described in the documentary? (The first google result "Lives in special ed adult facility without contact with the scientific team is not enough)

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1. The critical period hypothesis is proposed by Lenneberg. It states that the subject of a long-standing debate in linguistics and language acquisition over the extent to which the ability to acquire language is biologically linked to age.

2. Genie is the pseudonym for an American feral child who was a victim of severe abuse, neglect, and social isolation. Her circumstances are prominently recorded in the annals of linguistics and abnormal child psychology.This case gave interesting insights into the horrific account of an isolated child.

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