WorksheetsYes, Your Dog Does Understand You! by Maitreyi Mantha
Total questions: 25
Worksheet time: 13mins
What are a lot of dog owners convinced by?
They are convinced at the fact that their dog understands them all the time.
They are convinced at the fact that their dog knows the difference between right or wrong.
They are convinced at the fact that their dog knows how to eat a certain amount.
They are convinced at the fact that they know their name.
Where is the new study about dogs located at?
The study is located in a science lab in Massachusetts.
The study is located at Florida State.
The study is located at the San Diego Zoo.
The study is located at Atlanta’s Emory University.
What does the Atlanta’s Emory University new study seem to indicate?
They believe that the dog knows what the owner is saying when the owner speaks.
They believe that the dog has a bigger brain than humans.
They believe that dogs are the most beautiful mammal living on the earth.
They believe that dogs do not understand what their owner is saying when the owner is speaking.
Who is Ashley Prichard?
She is a zookeeper at the San Diego Zoo.
She is Marie Curie's great great great grandma.
She is a Ph.D. at Emory’s Department of Psychology and the study’s first author.
She works at a humane society for dogs and cats.
What did the researchers begin to ask to the dog owners?
They asked to teach their dogs new tricks.
They asked to take their dog to obedience classes.
They asked to feed the dogs a different brand.
They asked to train their pets to identify two toys with different textures.
Where did they take the dogs after they mastered the identifying of the two toys.
All the dogs were put in a science lab.
They took turns inside a functional magnetic resonance imaging scanner (fMRI).
They took turns in a veterinarian's office.
Two dogs at a time were put in a room to work together to find the toys that the researchers hid.
After the dogs were put in the fMRI, what did the owners do?
They tested their dog's language prowess.
They tested their dog's agility.
They tested their dog's reflections.
They tested their dog's senses.
How did the owner's test their language prowess?
The owners would talk to the dogs in a different accent to see if they would respond.
They would call out the names of the toys that they recognize and say meaningless words while holding up random objects the dogs hadn’t seen before.
The owners would tell the dog to bark either loud or quiet.
The owners would speak to each dog like they were a human.
What did the fMRI scans reveal?
It shows whether the dogs are happy or not.
It shows that the dogs are not listening when the owners speak.
It would show what the dog is thinking while the owners are speaking.
It would show different brain patterns when the dogs were hearing familiar words, compared to the words they never heard before.
What did the researchers believe when they got the fMRI scans back?
The researchers believe that the dogs can adapt to new things more quickly than humans.
The researchers believe that the dogs are not happy when they learn new things.
The researchers believe that the dogs are not listening to the owners like they should be doing.
The researchers believe that it is an important step forward in understanding how dogs process language.
The vocabulary word, "textures" means what?
It means that your brain is damaged for a long period of time.
It means your brain can adapt to new things more quickly than others.
It is the feel, appearance, or consistency of a surface or a substance.
It means that you have a injury for a very long time.
What did the dog's brains score highly of?
Their brains showed a higher level of neural activity at the sound of unknown words.
Their brains showed that they listen very well when the owner is speaking to them.
Their brains showed that they don't listen very well when the owner is speaking to them.
Their brains show that they can adapt to newer things quickly.
What is different between our brains and the dogs brains?
Humans are more picky on what they eat compared to dogs.
Dog reflexes are much better than human reflexes.
Dogs can respond better to unknown words than humans. Humans do better with responding to familiar words than dogs.
Dogs are more hesitant about doing things than humans.
The vocabulary word, "encountered" means what?
It means to experience something.
It means to shop for counters for your home.
It means to deal with other people's money.
It means to buy something that you will never need.
What does Gregory Burns believe the dogs want to do?
He believes that the dogs want to please their owners.
He believes that the dogs are wanting to eat all day.
He believes that the dogs are wanting the owners to take them on walks daily.
He believes that the dogs want other dogs to play with at home.
Who is Gregory Burns?
He is a veterinarian who works on horses.
He is a zookeeper at the San Diego Zoo.
He is a Emory neuroscientist who is a senior author of the study.
He is a scientists who is a great great grandson of Albert Einstein.
What do the scientists recommend for owners who are training their dogs.
They recommend using visual and scent cues for training.
They recommend using different types of toys so they encounter new things.
They recommend going to a professional trainer to train their dogs.
They recommend to buy a certain type of dog food to help strengthen their brain.
From the dog's perspective, how can a dog learn a trick more quickly?
The owner could take the dog to a professional trainer.
The owner could spend hours with the dog working on the trick.
The owner good get special dog food to strengthen their brain.
The owner could give visual commands to the dog.
How many dogs were tested for the study?
9 dogs were tested.
6 dogs were tested.
12 dogs were tested.
8 dogs were tested.
The vocabulary word, "recognition" means what?
It is the identification of someone or something
It means to scan over something.
It means to have a large amount of money.
It means to buy something that is a great price.
The vocabulary word, "retrieve" means what?
It means to buy a new dog.
It means to catch a baseball.
It means to pick up a huge mess.
It means to bring or get something back.
What meaningless words did the owners use to test the dogs?
They used words like, "bobbu" and "bodmick".
They used words like, "shosho" and "catto".
They used words like, "babsle" and "ramel".
They used words like, "crody" and "sard".
The vocabulary word, "prowess" means what?
It means to have skill in a particular field or activity.
It means to have power over someone.
It means to accomplish something great.
It means to defend something.
Why is it not true that dogs know what their owner is saying?
All dogs are deaf to where they can't hear their owner.
Their brain isn't smart enough to know what they are saying.
Their is no scientific evidence to support it.
The dogs do not have a brain to take in the knowledge.
What did the researchers hypothesize?
They hypothesized that dogs are just wanting to eat all day.
They hypothesized that dogs don't listen very well.
They hypothesized that the dogs might be perking up at the sound of new words to try to understand them and to please their owners.
They hypothesized that dogs have too small of brains to take in knowledge.
