About the Author
What is the name of the author?
Mary "Temple" Grandin
What is the name of the device that keeps an animal in place for its check ups?
Squeeze Chute
Doing something good to someone as a way to get a certain behavior.
Positive Reinforcement.
What is the name of the famous psychologist that the author met?
B.F Skinner
How does the author think?
She is a visual thinker (she thinks in images)
What intellectual disability does the author have?
Autism
What is the device that is used to deliver an electric shock to cattle?
Cattle Prod
Not doing something bad to someone or stopping something bad as a way to get a certain behavior.
Negative Reinforcement
What is the name of the device used to test animals?
Skinner Box
A rare condition in which someone with significant mental disabilities demonstrates certain abilities far in excess of average.
Savant Syndrome
What was the author's nickname in highschool?
Tape Recorder
When the author was hired to fix the cattle ranch, what was the problem with the cattle?
They were scared of the transition from the light to the dark.
Someone who studies animal behavior in a lab or artificial setting.
Behaviorist
What was considered "off limits" to behaviorists? (What was the term called)
Black Box
In those with Autism, how common is Savant Syndrome?
1 in 10 people have some form of it
What was the best gift the author ever received in high school?
English Bridle and Saddle
What was the name of the old system of cattle restrainers?
V-restrainers
Someone who studies animal behavior in the animal's natural environment.
Ethologist
Where did the author travel too to meet the famous psychologist?
Harvard
What kind of thinkers are most people?
Visual Thinkers
Name any one of the three horses Grandin mentions in the book.
Lady, Beauty or Goldie
What is the name of the system the author designed for the cattle ranches?
The Center Track Restraining System
Attribute human characteristics or behavior to an animal.
Anthropomorphize
A process by which humans and animals learn to behave in such a way as to obtain rewards and avoid punishments.
Operant Conditioning
A thing that is or is likely to be wrongly perceived or interpreted by the senses.
Illusion