quizz

What does Lloyd Morgan's canon suggest

• you must accept the most complex explanation of an animal's behaviour

• you must accept the most simple explanation of an animal's behaviour

• animal and human learning are different

• all learning is trial and error

How might a researcher avoid a 'Clever Hans' effect?

• Place a screen between the experimenter and the animal

• Use video cameras

• Use nonverbal tasks

• Only do research in a natural environment

What solution has been suggested by Bitterman to address the challenges of measuring cognitive abilities in different species?

• Use one task across a number of species

• Use then most appropriate task for the species

• adapt a task to a particular species

• adapt a task across various conditions and factors

What sense do some animals have that humans do not?

• Vision

• Hearing

• Magnetic sensitivity

• Smell

What aspect of the honeybee dance means that it could be considered to be a language?

• It refers to something that is displaced in space

• It is directed at a receiver

• It can be adapted to a range of situations

• It can be comprehended in the dark

Do animals have language

• What's your definition of language?

• It depends

• No

• Don't know

What mechanism could explain how animals learn words?

• Classical conditioning

• Habituation

• Reasoning

• Observational conditioning

Which of these is NOT in the list of language criteria

• Arbitrariness of units

• Productivity

• Semanticity

• Costly

Analogical Reasoning relies on past experiences

• True

• False

When looking at reasoning tasks, it is important to know about

• The age of the animal

• The training history of the animal

• Any social learning effects

• The animal's keeper