Author Question: You ask Chaser, a border collie, to fetch something that she has never heard of before, but the item ... (Read 85 times)

ec501234 · **on:** Jun 21, 2018

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

Question 2

After training Chaser to learn the names of a variety of items, it became possible to determine that she could group items based on their features. Which of the following terms refers to this process?

A) Syntax
B) Semantics
C) Conceptualization
D) Categorization