What research method was used for the Monster Study?
The experiment was an eight-month experiment, running from January to August of 1939. To keep track of any changes in speech that appeared as a result of the experiment, five speech pathology specialists were told to judge and rate the fluency of the kids’ speech before and after the experiment.
What was the purpose of the monster study experiment?
The Monster Study was conducted by Dr. Wendell Johnson (a speech pathologist) to learn more about why children developed a stutter. Johnson developed the Monster Study to see if stuttering was a result of learned behavior or Biology, however there are many ethical problems with the study.
Why was the Monster Study 1939 unethical?
This study violated a lot of ethical issues because the children were psychological harm, informed consent was not given and the subjects were deceived. Wendell Johnson had a biased opinion in this study because he was a stutter himself and was desperate for a cure.
How old were the children in the monster study?
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.
What was the results of the Monster Study?
Nothing in the study indicated any of the subjects became stutterers. But researchers concluded that those in the negative therapy group showed a loss of self-esteem and other detrimental effects seen in adult stutterers.
What were the variables in the monster study?
The independant variable in this experiment is whether they were given positive or negative speech therapy. What was the point of the study? The point of the study was to discover the affects of positive speech to orphaned children in 1939.
How old were the kids in the monster study?
How long did the monster study last?
The experimental period lasted from January until late May 1939, and the actual intervention consisted of Tudor driving to Davenport from Iowa City every few weeks and talking with each child for about 45 minutes.
What was the dependent variable of the Monster Study?
The Monster Study. The dependent variable in this experiment was the speech patterns the children presented when exposed to certain types of speech therapy.