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Exploring Language and Animal Intelligence

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  • What does “achieve” mean?
    To give up
    Winning a nap contest
    To accomplish
    To avoid
  • What does “cognition” mean?
    Sleeping and eating
    Brain Wifi connection
    Running and jumping
    Thinking and understanding
  • What does the word “controversy” mean?
    A friendly conversation
    Serious disagreement
    A fight between cats wearing sunglasses
    A type of research
  • What sense do dogs use extremely well?
    Hearing
    Detecting WiFi passwords
    Smell
    Sight
  • What does “unconscious” mean?
    Wide awake
    Sleeping beauty waiting for true love's kiss
    Thoughtful and careful
    Done without realizing it
  • What does “perception” mean?
    An opinion poll
    Smelling pizza from outer space
    Test score
    Use of senses
  • What does “behavior” mean?
    A type of food
    The way someone or something acts
    Dancing penguins on TikTok
    A place where animals live
  • What does “obvious” mean?
    Hidden or secret
    As invisible as your teacher's coffee mug
    Very confusing
    Clear, easy to see
  • What does “acquired” mean?
    Lost or forgotten
    Developed or gained
    Catching Pokémon in real life
    Already born with
  • Dance Like This!
    Good Job!
  • What does “apparently” mean?
    Seeming to be true
    Very secretive
    Like a magician's rabbit
    Completely false
  • What does “category” mean?
    A basket full of tacos
    A group with shared characteristics
    An individual item
    A single person's opinion
  • What method do researchers now use to test animal intelligence?
    Forcing them to take human math tests
    Teaching them to climb trees
    Testing in ways meaningful to the animal
    Making them do their owner's homework
  • What does “unique” mean?
    Common and ordinary
    Special, one of a kind
    Repeated often
    A unicorn's favorite hairstyle
  • What is the difference between instinct and learned intelligence?
    Instinct disappears after training
    Instinct is what we are born with, intelligence is acquired by learning
    Instincts when animals join Instagram
    Instinct is stronger than learning
  • Why was Clever Hans NOT really intelligent?
    He was reacting to unconscious signals from people
    He had memorized math tables
    He was secretly using a calculator
    He was just lucky
  • Who was “Clever Hans”?
    A horse that seemed to solve math problems
    A hamster who could juggle
    A famous scientist
    A circus performer
  • According to the passage, which animal can see a rabbit flying a kite above it?
    Shark
    Goldfish with glasses
    Dog
    Eagle
  • What does “approach” mean?
    A mistake
    A final answer
    A method or way of doing something
    Walking like a turtle to class