'Wild' children who have not been socialised are known as?

• A. Feral children
• B. Imitation
• C. Role modelling
• D. Nature

Answer: (A)

Feral children describe young people who have grown up in isolation from human society and have had little to no socialisation, so they miss out on learning norms, language, and behavior expected by culture. Socialisation is the process that teaches us how to act, speak, and interact in society; without it, children may develop with few cultural skills or social cues. The other terms refer to aspects of learning or factors, not the label for these cases: imitation and role modelling are ways children learn by copying others, and nature points to biological factors rather than describing a lack of social upbringing. So the best-fitting term is feral children.