Dog intelligence is the ability of the dog to perceive information and retain it as knowledge for applying to solve problems. Dogs have been shown to learn by inference. A study with Rico showed that he knew the labels of over 200 different items. He inferred the names of novel items by exclusion learning and correctly retrieved those novel items immediately and also 4 weeks after the initial exposure. Dogs have advanced memory skills. A study documented the learning and memory capabilities of a border collie, "Chaser", who had learned the names and could associate by verbal command over 1,000 words. Dogs are able to read and react appropriately to human body language such as gesturing and pointing, and to understand human voice commands. Dogs demonstrate a theory of mind by engaging in deception. A study showed compelling evidence that Australian dingos can outperform domestic dogs in non-social problem-solving experiment, indicating that domestic dogs may have lost much of their original problem-solving abilities once they joined humans. Another study indicated that after undergoing training to solve a simple manipulation task, dogs that are faced with an insoluble version of the same problem look at the human, while socialized wolves do not. Modern domestic dogs use humans to solve their problems for them. COUNT 9
QSN1 What is the name of the dog that could ID over 200 things? ANS1 Rico QSN2 What is the name of the Border collie that knew over 1000 words? ANS2 Chaser QSN3 In addition to interpreting body language and verbal commands dogs can also interpret what two other things? ANS3 gesturing and pointing QSN4 What wild canine did better at a problem-solving experiment? ANS4 Australian dingos QSN5 What is one thing, according to the text, that domesticated dogs use humans for? ANS5 to solve their problems for them. QSN6 Perceiving information and retaining it is what? ANS6 intelligence QSN7 How many labels does Rico the dog know? ANS7 over 200 QSN8 What kind of memory skills do dogs have? ANS8 advanced QSN9 How many words did Chaser know? ANS9 over 1,000