You Ask Chaser, a Border Collie, to Fetch Something That

Multiple Choice

You ask Chaser, a border collie, to fetch something that she has never heard of before, but the item is placed among a variety of other items that she already knows. Chaser will then select the new item appropriately. What is the name for this process by which Chaser learns new words?

A) Inference
B) Exclusion
C) Artificial language
D) Semantics