According to the National Communication Association of ethical principles, “one must advocate truthfulness, accuracy, honesty, and reason as essential integrity of communication”, but in a study done at the University of Iowa by Wendell Johnson this ethic was ignored in order to get participants into the experiment without fail. The study was testing stuttering and the importance of stutterers thoughts, attitudes, and beliefs when speaking publicly or in their daily lives. Johnson reached out to 22 orphans from a veteran orphanage and told them they were going to receive regular speech therapy, leaving out the true intent of his actions. The children were split up, one group given positive speech therapy consisting of praising and encouragement while the second group were given negative speech therapy which pointed …show more content…
Johnson purposely left out that he was testing their stuttering which caused the study to take a pessimistic turn. As a result of this experiment, 11 kids had their positive attitudes taken away from them and became very conscious of everything they said and did. This experiment could also be modestly argued unethical by another ethical principle from the National Communication Association which reads, “We promote communication climates of caring and mutual understanding that respect the unique needs and characteristics of individual communicators”. By telling this group of kids that their speech was awful, sloppy, under average, and most of all useless, the orphans ended up having worse communication skills then they had at the very beginning. This being said, the children's speech was not respected and instead downgraded for research reasons. Overall, the Monster Study was unethical by Johnson's lack of information to the orphans participating and the disrespect to the kids whose speech suffered because of
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The Monster study is speech impediment experiment that was done on the children that lived in the orphanage. This experiment was conducted to find out if stuttering was inherited or did environment play a key factor. Wendell Johnson was the speech pathologist that conducted this study to find the cause and cure for stuttering. 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. In this paper, I will discuss the background of this experiment and the violations of ethics that were done in this study.
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Wendell Johnson devised the Monster study in 1939 at the Soldiers and Sailors Orphans’ Home in Dayton, Iowa to find the true cause of stuttering, which he and many others suffered from (Reynolds, 2003). The popular theory at the time was that stuttering was a physiological defect, meaning the brain’s signals misfired; however, Johnson believed that stuttering was a “learned behavior and could be unlearned” (Reynolds, 2003, n.pag). To see if his hypothesis was correct, Johnson devised an experiment now known as the “Monster Study.” Before he could begin he requested the help of one of his students at the time, Mary Tudor, to carry out the experiment for him. Before the experiment “Tudor and 5 other graduate students ranked twenty-six children’s speech on a scale of one to five, one being poor and five being fluent” (Reynolds, 2003, n.pag). Based on this the children were separated into four groups: IA consisted of five children who stuttered, but were told nice things; IB consisted of five children who stuttered and were told negative things; IIA consisted of six children who did not stutter but, were told they did, and, IIB consisted of six children who did not stutter and were told nice things. Tudor used rehearsed responses such as,” you will be able to speak even better than you are speaking now” on students in IA and responses such as” Don’t ever speak unless you can do it right” on children in IIA (Reynolds, 2003, n.pag.). Even after just two sessions,
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Like most stutterers, Wendell Johnson became easily aware of speech impediment from an early age onwards. After one of his teachers grew concerned about Johnson and told his parents, he became more and more engrossed in being aware of how he spoke differently than others. He knew that most people didn’t understand that having a stutter was a struggle to accept for himself. So when Johnson came up with an idea to conduct an experiment on young children to see if stuttering was a learned behavior or not, he engaged one of his graduate students, Mary Tudor, 22 year old studying clinical psychology. The experiment included using a group of children from a local orphanage, yet at the time using orphans for clinical research at the time was considered unethical at the time, as it would be today. Yet the ‘monster’ from this infamous study wasn’t Johnson himself, it was his fear of his stutter in the first place.