Author's Purpose
The main reason for writing a text.
What is author's purpose?
An unusual or remarkable fact or event.
What is phenomenon?
Clever Hans was this kind of animal.
What is a horse?
C.G. Beer studied the laughing behavior of seagulls at this New Jersey University.
What is Rutgers?
Speed of learning, decision making, long term memory and problem-solving are all measurable factors of this.
What is intelligence?
Because most authors do no state their reason for writing, the reader must do this.
What is infer?
The ability to easily learn something new.
What is aptitude?
To teach Hans, his trainer used these materials.
What are blackboard, flash cards, number boards and letter cards?
*you only need one to be correct!
An experiment on these animals showed that scientists need to understand how animals perceive things like colors.
What are cebus and rhesus monkeys?
Psychologists have developed tests like this one to more accurately measure intelligence.
What is the Structure of Intelligence Test or SOI?
These are two questions to ask yourself when trying to determine the author's purpose.
What are 'why is the author telling me this' and 'what does the author want me to think'?
What is complexity?
Han's trainer thought he was smart because he would exhibit these behaviors.
What are pawing the answer, shaking his head up/down, answering yes/no, shaking his head left/right?
*you only need one of these to be correct!
After studying the long call in seagulls, C.G. Beer made this conclusion.
What is that humans often misunderstand animal behavior because animals have such a different life experience than humans?
This is how many factors of intelligence have been written about by scientists.
What is more than 100?
These are the three main purposes for writing.
What are to persuade, to inform, to entertain?
To associate or credit to someone or something.
What is attribute?
This is the method used to uncover the real story of Clever Hans.
What is a double-blind experiment?
Scientists have found it difficult to study wild animals in a lab setting for these reasons.
What are the animals are afraid or the setting is too strange for them?
These dogs used at JFK airport to sniff out drugs show how it easy it can be to confuse trainability with intelligence in animals.
What are beagles?
This is the purpose of a story about a young girl who decided to build a treehouse.
What is entertain?
The state of being irregular or not behaving in an expected way.
What is inconsistency?
This is a negative impact of the Clever Hans experiment.
What is scientists became TOO cautious about the mental abilities of animals?
This is the main reason why scientists find it nearly impossible to compare the intelligence of different animal species.
What is animals are too varied in their physical makeup as well as living in many different environments?
For her loyalty and bravery, Villa the dog was given this award in 1983.
What is the Ken-L Ration Dog Hero of the Year Award?