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0000002944 00000 n The so-called ‘Monster Study’ on children’s stuttering qualifies for this series on weird psychology on three grounds.
… 0000010506 00000 n Growing up Johnson stuttered. She asked him how he knew. AN EXPERIMENTAL STUDY OF THE EFFECT OF EVALUATIVE LABELLING ON SPEECH FLUENCY by Mary Tudor A thesis submitted in partial fulfillment of the require ments for the degree of Master of Arts, in the Department of Psychology, in the Gradu ate College of the State Univer sity of Iowa.
The other, eleven-year-old Clarence Fifer, started anxiously correcting himself. The Monster Study was a stuttering experiment involving 22 orphaned children in Davenport, Iowa in 1939.
0000012293 00000 n "Why did you snap your fingers?" Three times after her experiment had officially ended she returned to the orphanage to voluntarily provide follow-up care. "Because I was afraid I was going to say 'a.'" The experiment was carried out by Dr. Wendell Johnson at the University of Iowa. The Monster Study was conducted by Dr. Wendell Johnson at the University of Iowa. 0000002497 00000 n She was asked why she said 'a' so much. Tudor and five other graduate students who agreed to serve as judges listened to each of the children speak, graded them on a scale from 1 (poor) to 5 (fluent) and concurred with the school's assessment. 0000043338 00000 n 0000051653 00000 n 0000034829 00000 n
0000056212 00000 n Download full text in PDF Download. She wrote to Johnson about the orphans in a slightly defensive letter dated April 22, 1940, "I believe that in time they … will recover, but we certainly made a definite impression on them. 0000025926 00000 n Dr. Wendell Johnson: Dr. Wendell Johnson was a speech pathologist, and he himself suffered from a stutter. 0000004582 00000 n Hazel Potter, 15, the oldest in her group, became "much more conscious of herself, and she talked less," Tudor noted. 0000008125 00000 n An unpublished study is reported that was conducted during the late 1930s in which normally fluent children were reported to have been turned into stutters. An unpublished study is reported that was conducted during the late 1930s in which normally fluent children were reported to have been turned into stutters. 0000056235 00000 n However, Patricia Zebrowski, University of Iowa assistant professor of The research began with a selection of twenty-two subjects from a veterans' orphanage in Iowa.
On the first visit, Tudor tested each child's I.Q.
0000002798 00000 n Many of the orphans testified that they were harmed by the "Monster Study" but outside of Mary Tudor, who testified in a deposition on November 19, 2002, there were no eyewitnesses. Iowa assistant professor of speech pathology and audiology notes that the data that resulted from the experiment is the "largest These children, ranging in age from 5 to 15, were to be told that their speech was not normal at all, that they were beginning to stutter and that they must correct this immediately. 0000001611 00000 n Use your will power… Do anything to keep from stuttering… Don't ever speak unless you can do it right. The state tried unsuccessfully to have the lawsuit dismissed but in September 2005, Iowa's Supreme Court justices agreed with a lower court in rejecting the state's claim of immunity and petition for dismissal. It wasn’t nature. 0000006972 00000 n
Monster Study Duration: c. 6’50” Elizabeth Gartman Soprano 1 Soprano 2 Viola Violoncello Texts compiled by Susan Bywaters and Elizabeth Gartman from Mary Tudor’s graduate thesis in 1939, later made public by the University of Iowa and a public domain article by S an Jose M ercury News . An unpublished study is reported that was conducted during the late 1930s in which normally fluent children were reported to have been turned into stutters. 0000012251 00000 n He wanted to know more about why children developed a stutter.
Feels like it's stuck in there." 0000004425 00000 n
ScienceDirect ® is a registered trademark of Elsevier B.V.ScienceDirect ® is a registered trademark of Elsevier B.V. She told the IIA children that they didn't stutter after all.
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"I hardly ever talk to her." 0000001775 00000 n A popular theory at the time held that stuttering was caused by a cerebral imbalance. He said that the sound "wouldn't come out.
"He stopped and told me he was going to have trouble on words before he said them," Tudor reported. 0000021226 00000 n
The Monster Study was a way to figure out if his hunch was right. 0000005810 00000 n
You must try to stop yourself immediately.