Exam 13: Comparative Cognition

Briefly describe the case of Clever Hans and its eventual outcome.

When would the horse named Clever Hans provide the correct answer to a question?

Which of the following birds would have the largest hippocampus ?

You tell a 3-year-old girl the following story: "Ellen hides her jewelry in an ice-cream container in the freezer so that if burglars break into the house, they will not find these very special pieces." If you ask the 3-year-old girl where a burglar would look for the jewelry, what would she typically say?

If a species has an understanding of quantity, then it can also be said that the species shows evidence of  _____.

Define the term comparative cognition. What are the two alternative terms that are sometimes used for this field of study, and why is comparative cognition generally preferred?

The artificial language experiments failed to provide clear evidence that most chimps can acquire the _____ aspect of language.

Define transitive inference. Outline a research study in which transitive inference was displayed by animals.

The fact that I can refer to a certain object on the street as either a car or an automobile is an example of   _____.

In a training procedure, a ring-tailed lemur (a social animal) is given a reinforcer if it chooses the higher ranking item in a pair. If A>B and B>C and C>D, then how would the lemur respond if asked to choose between A and D?

Which of the following species performs more POORLY than the others in the rope task for cooperation?

Which of the following reactions is expected of a 24-month-old chimpanzee who demonstrates a lack of self-recognition while taking part in the mark and mirror task?

A good way to teach an ape sign language is to:

In order to test the memory of pigeons, Darlene trained them to peck a target in order to earn food. A week later, the trained target was presented among a variety of other novel targets to determine whether the pigeons could remember which target was the right one. Experiments like this demonstrate that the act of remembering can often be thought of as an instance of  _____.

The fact that a dog can also be called a canine or a pooch is an example of _____.

Chimpanzees' hammer-and-anvil technique of cracking _________ takes up to _________ years to master .

In MacLean, Merritt, and Brannon's research experiment on lemurs, subjects were given a reinforcer provided they chose the higher ranking item in a pair. Given that A>B, B>C, C>D, D>E, and E>F, then how did a ring-tailed lemur (a social animal) respond when asked to choose between B and F?

Which of the following conclusions can be inferred from the performance of chimpanzees in the hidden banana task?

In Koehler's direct matching-to-sample tasks on birds, it was found that some birds could match numbers as large as  _____.

In _____, an animal is first shown a sample stimulus and then, following a break, is required to select that stimulus out of a set of alternative stimuli.