How Smart are Animals?

Which of these is NOT a factor of intelligence?

• instinct

• comprehension

• decision-making

• reasoning

Clever Hans’s secret was uncovered by a method that is now called

• the Structure of Intellect test

• the factors of intelligence

• divergent production

• the double blind experiment

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

• Animals are too much like people

• Animals do not like to learn

• Animals are very different from each other

• Animals only like to perform tricks

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CCSS.RI.6.1

CCSS.RI.6.2

Wild animals...

• are more intelligent than laboratory animals.

• are easier for scientists to handle than lab animals

• may be afraid or feel strange in a laboratory setting.

• make it easier for scientists to design experiments.

Because the lives of animals are so different from the lives of people,

• we know that animals are not intelligent.

• we must develop different ideas of what animal intelligence might be.

• animals need people to teach them how to do things.

• we know animals cannot learn new things on their own.

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CCSS.RI.6.2

Something that has complexity

• has many different parts or layers

• has a few simple connections.

• can be easily and quickly explained.

• takes a short time to understand.

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CCSS.RI.6.5

If the results of ten tests show inconsistency...

• the results are the same every time.

• the test was done correctly each time.

• the results are easy to understand.

• the results are not the same every time.

A phenomenon is

• a long, difficult intelligence test

• an unusual or remarkable fact or event

• a confusing animal trick

• a scientific experiment.

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CCSS.L.6.4A

CCSS.RI.6.4

If a pet has an aptitude for doing a trick, it means the pet

• can easily learn the trick.

• is afraid to do the trick

• doesn’t want to do the trick.

• is tired of doing the trick.

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CCSS.RI.6.4

CCSS.RL.6.4

If you attribute sadness to a pet, you

• want it to feel unhappy.

• want it to learn a trick.

• believe the pet is sad.

• are telling it to have a nap

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CCSS.L.6.5A