Extreme Isolation Analysis

After reading the article called, “Final Note on a Case of Extreme Isolation” by Kingsley Davis from Princeton University, it's sad to know that there are young children who are raised in isolation. To the point where children never learned basic skills like being able to speak, run or even walk. Though with Anna and Isabelle case in mind it's an opportunity for psychologist to learn about the affects that isolation has on a person. The reason is this is a unique opportunity for them because people can’t recreate scenarios where kids are forced to grew up in isolation just to simply learn about the effects of isolation since it goes against moral ethic. So, by having such extreme isolated cases like Anna and Isabelle they are able to speculate

As well as, she had a bit higher mental capacity because of the social interaction with her mother since they were able communicate through gestures which signifies Isabelle was bit more mentally developed than Anna. As well as, in the article it says, “...remember that Anna never received the prolonged and expert attention that Isabelle received (Davis 4).” This caused Isabelle to make a higher progress is a shorter amount of time because of this there is a belief that Anna was congenitally deficient from birth. They even tried to check her genetics to see her chances to see if it were true, however, the hereditary of her father is unknown while her mother only finished the eighth grade. They asked people about Anna’s mother and they said she wasn’t the brightest student. Than when they administered a test on her it show she had an IQ of 50 which is pretty low but once should keep in mind she only finished the eighth grade, works on the farm for hours a day and probably hasn’t had anymore education since she was in eighth. So, when she took the test it bound to be quite low since she probably doesn’t remember much of what she learned. I can relate to this because neither of my parents finished even went to high school because they had to help their family financially. So, it's been years since they