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.

How has the SOI test changed the scientific understanding of intelligence since the early 20th century?

Scientists no longer measure intelligence according to a limited range of mental abilities.

the capacity to perform repeated behaviors

What is intelligence?

the ability to solve problems by exercising reason

an inborn pattern of activity or tendency to action

specific instance of a general rule

statement from someone with special knowledge

Why did Andrea Anderson need help from Villa, the Newfoundland dog, in “How Smart Are Animals?”

She was blown into a snowdrift during a blizzard.

According to “How Smart Are Animals?” what was a common attitude toward animal intelligence up to the 1960s?

Scientists thought that understanding animal intelligence would be an impossible task.

What is the “Clever Hans phenomenon” described in “How Smart Are Animals?”

an experiment in which an animal seems intelligent but is merely responding to cues

In “How Smart Are Animals?” C. G. Beer’s experiment on the “long calls” of laughing gulls proves which of the following ideas? Scientists can easily interpret animal communication. Birds communicate in a way that is similar to human speech. Laughing gulls make signals that are the same for each bird on all occasions. There are differences in the calls of birds that are hard for a human to notice.

There are differences in the calls of birds that are hard for a human to notice.

If you evaluate a situation properly, which of the following statements is true? You have many questions about it. You have gone with your first instinct. You have considered and judged it thoroughly. You have set up an experiment and collected data.

You have considered and judged it thoroughly.

Based on the quotation, which example shows intelligence most clearly? Options: An animal learns to find its way through a maze., An animal learns a faster way through a maze it has already mastered., An animal finds its way through a maze that is more complicated than the mazes it has already learned., An animal decides that it wants to work on matching shapes as well as on solving mazes.

An animal decides that it wants to work on matching shapes as well as on solving mazes.

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.

Which quotation from “How Smart Are Animals?” most clearly supports the answer to Part A? Options: More advanced signs of intelligence are tool manufacture and use, symbolic communication, and ability to form mental concepts. , When an animal can’t perform well, we don’t know if it really cannot solve the problems put to it or if it just doesn’t want to. , Animals are just too varied in their physical makeup and in their life styles. , Variations of “intelligence” from one individual to the next can significantly affect the results.

Animals are just too varied in their physical makeup and in their life styles.

Which statement would the author of "How Smart Are Animals?" most likely agree with? Options: Intelligence always involves using symbols, such as words; An animal that does well on a test must be intelligent; An animal that is hard to train cannot be intelligent; What counts as intelligence depends on what is important to an animal.

What counts as intelligence depends on what is important to an animal.

Which quotation from “How Smart Are Animals?” most clearly supports the answer to Part A? Options: Animals that are easy to train may also be very intelligent. Some of the most trainable creatures, such as dolphins, are also the most likely candidates for genuine animal thinking. , We can’t hand [animals] a pencil and paper and give them a test, and we can’t ask them what they’re thinking. , Since the lives of animals are so different from ours, we can’t apply human standards to them. We must develop different ideas of what animal intelligence might be. , More advanced signs of intelligence are tool manufacture and use, symbolic communication, and ability to form mental concepts.

Since the lives of animals are so different from ours, we can’t apply human standards to them. We must develop different ideas of what animal intelligence might be.

What did the Newfoundland dog, Villa, do that was remarkable?

She rescued a young girl who was trapped in a snowdrift.

How Smart Are Animals? Flashcards

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1.

FLASHCARD QUESTION

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Which detail supports the central idea that measuring animal intelligence is difficult?

Back

Animals are very different from each to other

2.

FLASHCARD QUESTION

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Because the lives of animals are so different from the lives of people, what must we do?

Back

We must develop different ideas of what animal intelligence might be.

3.

FLASHCARD QUESTION

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EVALUATE

Back

determine the value or condition of someone or something in a careful and thoughtful way

4.

FLASHCARD QUESTION

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PHENOMENON

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an unusual or remarkable fact or event

5.

FLASHCARD QUESTION

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INVESTIGATION

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careful examination of something, especially to discover the truth about it

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FLASHCARD QUESTION

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OBSERVING

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watching carefully

7.

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INTERPRET

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explain the meaning of something

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