Part 3: Developmental psychology
MCQs
Click on the links below to run interactive MCQ exercises to test your knowledge of the cases.
- Innocence lost: the story of Genie
- The boy who was never a girl: the story of David Reimer
- The Wild Boy of Aveyron: the story of Victor
- Two little boys: the story of Little Albert and Little Peter
Website links
Two little boys: the story of Little Albert and Little Peter
- www.apa.org/ethics/code/index.aspx
- See ‘Whatever happened to Little Albert?’ by Ben Harris on the reporting mistakes by academics of the Little Albert study: http://htpprints.yorku.ca/archive/00000198/01/BHARRIS.HTM
- For a summary of the British Psychological Society (BPS) and American Psychological Association (APA) Ethical guidelines, see: www.bps.org.uk/the-society/code-of-conduct/
The Wild Boy of Aveyron: the story of Victor
- Further amazing stories about wild children can be found on the comprehensive website www.feralchildren.com
