Razel M
Science Teaching Department, Weizmann Institute of Science, Rehovot, Israel.
Percept Mot Skills. 1988 Aug;67(1):147-58. doi: 10.2466/pms.1988.67.1.147.
Three experiments on long-term isolation and educational deprivation of infants were performed 50 years ago by Myrtle McGraw and by Wayne and Marsena Dennis. Current textbooks regularly present these studies incorrectly as supporting the notion that early motor development is unaffected by environment. This presentation is shown to be incorrect by a reanalysis of the studies which indicates severe and far-reaching negative effects of the depriving conditions upon the experimental infants. A follow-up study of the experimental subjects in later years and a publication of McGraw's unreported study are called for.
50年前，默特尔·麦格劳以及韦恩和玛塞纳·丹尼斯进行了三项关于婴儿长期隔离和教育剥夺的实验。当前的教科书经常错误地引用这些研究，认为它们支持早期运动发展不受环境影响这一观点。对这些研究的重新分析表明，剥夺条件对实验婴儿产生了严重且影响深远的负面影响，这证明了这种表述是错误的。有必要对实验对象进行后续多年的研究，并发表麦格劳未报告的研究。
