Vocabulary
The gradual change and development of different animals and plants
evolve
What animal saved the little girl in the beginning of the passage?
A dog
Does the author answer the question "How smart are animals?"
No, she does not.
The other starts of with Villa saving the little girl. What is this part of the passage called?
An anecdote
Chaser had the ability to:
Find all his stuffed animals by knowing their names
To believe that a person, thing, or event has a particular trait
attribute
Everyone thought this animal was smart, but really he was reacting to cues from the people around him. What is the name of this animal/type of animal?
Clever Hans/Horse
What is trainability?
The ability to perform repeated behaviors, often for a reward
What did the Newfoundland dog, Villa, do that was remarkable?
She rescued a young girl who was trapped in a snowdrift.
The dolphins had the ability to:
Read cards that had certain movements on them
An unusual or remarkable event or fact
Scientists did an experiment on these two types of _____, not realizing that one of them had different colored color vision which impacted the experiment.
monkeys
Clever Han's secret was uncovered by a method that is now called
Double blind experiment
What does SOI stand for?
Structure of Intellect
What do dolphins use to find out where objects are?
echolocation
Not behaving in the same way every time.
inconsistency
C.G. Beer thought this animal made a sound that was always the same. However, he realized that this type of bird had differences in their calls. What bird was it?
Laughing gull
What is the author’s purpose for including the story about Clever Hans?
The author is explaining why it is difficult to test animal intelligence by including an anecdote.
According to “How Smart Are Animals?” what is one important reason that it is difficult to compare the intelligence of one animal species to another?
Different animal species may not be physically equipped to take the same tests.
What is the difference between dogs and monkeys that is mentioned in the video?
Dogs want our attention and to spend time with us, while monkeys do not really care about us.
Ability to easily and quickly learn how do something
aptitude
Wild animals
According to “How Smart Are Animals?” what was a common attitude toward animal intelligence up to the 1960s?
Animals were thought to act on instinct, without any ability to think.
What is the difference between instinct and intelligence?
Intelligence is the ability to solve problems by exercising reason, while instinct is an inborn pattern of activity or tendency to action.
What happened in the dolphin experiment with the boxes?
The dolphins realized that they could get a fish out when they put more blocks in the box.