Question

Que. Your mission for this question is to experience life as You are to attempt to WALK LIKE KAMALA(Kamala & amala case). For 30 - 40 minutes, walk as a human quadruped. Describe what it feels like. What are the problems and difficulties of such an activity? You must try a variety of surfaces (carpeted and non-carpeted, outside if you dare) as well as going up and down a flight of stairs. What did all of this teach you about the case of the feral children who used quadruped locomotion? The difficult part of this question is that since I cannot prove you did these activities --- you have to convince me you actually did these activities.

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Answer 1

Its very difficulty to walk like Amala and Kamala, as we are not conditioned to walk like them and not nurtured in such a manner. Our body is not that flexible for quadrupped movements.Our muscles and bones are not structurally modified that is, it is not stretched and strengthened to move lile quadrups.

Amala and Kamala's case is that they are seperated from their parents during infancy and is reared apart by wolfs. They spend their critical period of development with the wolfs. They spend their life in a deprived and restricted environment. The girls seemed to have no trace of humanness in their actions and thought. The wolf habits acquired by Amala and Kamala had blocked the free expression of their innate human characteristics. Most of the motor behaviour is learned through observation and imitation .So ,in this case the feral children are reinforced to behave like a wolf. Even though Singh and his colleges gave training through theraputic sessions with normal children, they were interested to behave like cats and dogs. After several sessions of therapy some changes is the motor behaviour were noticed. Changes in patterns of language were also found. After these sessions kamala was able to reproduce around 40 words.

Amala and Kamala's case is a study which is subjected to nature v/s nurture contraversy and proved that nurturance have a vital role in growth and development.