Chaser (39 page)

skill at working with humans,
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from West's Flint Hill Farm,
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Border Collies in America
(Allen),
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“Border Collie Takes Record for Biggest Vocabulary” (Griggs),
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Bott, Chris,
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brain injury and language acquisition,
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Brand, Russell,
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Brooklyn, New York,
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Call, Josep,
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Campion, Eileen,
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“Can a Dog Learn Nouns, Verbs, Adverbs, and Prepositions?” (Pilley),
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See also
“Border Collie Comprehends Object Names as Verbal Referents”; “Collie Demonstrates Referential Understanding”

categories

instinctive understanding,
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toddlers' understanding of word categories,
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See also
common nouns

Chaser (Border collie)

appearance,
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eagerness for interaction/friendship with people,
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as family member,
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online news about, viral spread,
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“Chaser and Her Toys: What a Dog Teaches Us About Cognition” (Pilley),
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chasing

of cars, training Chaser to stop,
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as dangerous behavior,
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as instinctive behavior,
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children.
See
toddlers, young children

chimpanzees,
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circus dogs, training methods,
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classical conditioning,
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“clean up” command,
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Clever Hans effect

addressing in study design,
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avoidance of, by Rico researchers,
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as involuntary cuing,
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and the original Clever Hans,
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closed-ended learning/teaching approaches,
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Coffey, Eddie,
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cognitive potential.
See
learning potential, Chaser's

“Collie Demonstrates Referential Understanding” (Pilley and Reid),
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See also
“Border Collie Comprehends Object Names as Verbal Referents”

combinatorial understanding,
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“come by” command,
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“come” command,
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“to” command, meaning of to Chaser,
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commands

basic, teaching early,
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dogs' ignoring of,
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See also
language learning; training

common nouns

Chaser's understanding of,
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learning process,
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testing understanding of,
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Comparative Cognition Society,
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compassion.
See
empathy

complex behaviors, teaching,
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compliment-giving experiment,
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conditioning, classical,
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See also
operant learning/conditioning

context

and dogs' behaviors,
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understanding of words in,
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Coon cat, incident involving,
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Corbin, Laura,
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corrections, and tone of voice,
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Cort, Julia,
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Craig (Border collie),
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crate training,
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“crawl” command,
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creative learning

effectiveness as training approach,
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and the importance of play,
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invented games,
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learning about learning from Chaser,
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ongoing role in Chaser's training,
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and operant responses,
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and play as a reward,
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rote learning vs.,
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See also
play sessions during training

 

Daily Mail
, Witheridge article about Chaser in,
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Darwin, Charles

on dogs' capacity for empathy,
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on instinct,
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on social intelligence of dogs,
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demonstrations, videotaped, at Wofford,
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Deputy Dawg,
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Descartes, René, views about animals,
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Dess, Nancy,
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“Did Skinner Miss the Point About Teaching?” (Staddon),
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Divine Secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood, The
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dogs, Chaser's disinterest in,
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dogs, domestic

behavior of, as context-sensitive,
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critical period for social development,
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eagerness for interaction/friendship with people (
see also
Chaser),
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innate intelligence and learning potential,
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juvenile persona,
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mapping abilities,
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perceptual and cognitive abilities,
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respecting individuality of,
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sensitivity to human gaze,
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social intelligence,
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socializing to other dogs,
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See also
herding instinct

Don Juan (cat),
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Dorey, Nicole,
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double-blind experiments,
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“do what I do” cues,
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“drink” command,
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“drop” command,
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ducks, herding of,
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Duke University, Reid's studies at,
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Dunlap, Bernie,
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early training/socializing activities,
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test,
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empathy

Chaser's, toward John Pilley,
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nonhuman animal capacity for,
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end behaviors, training from,
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errorless learning,
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errors, Type
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ethology,
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evolution, theory of,
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“Evolution of Imitation, The” (Huber, Miklósi, et al.),
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exclusion, learning words by,
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eye contact, building in puppies,
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“eye” in Border collies,
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Fafner (golden retriever),
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farmers.
See
sheep farmers, shepherds

“fast fan” game,
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“fast mapping.”
See
learning by exclusion

“fetch” command,
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“find” command,
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Fischer, Julia,
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fixed action patterns, in instinct,
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Flint Hill Farm, Spartanburg,
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See also
West, Wayne

“Flipflopper” (Frisbee toy),
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Fluffy (rescue collie),
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Frisbee, as a common noun,
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Frisbee play,
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“to Frisbee take ball” command,
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Gail (Border collie),
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game-playing, creativity

finding games,
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as form of sociability,
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herding games,
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invented games,
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keep-away game,
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during Tang Soo Do (tae kwon do) exercises,
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in varied animal species,
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when playing with children,
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See also
creative learning; play sessions during training

Genius of Dogs, The
(Hare and Woods),
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Gibson, Allyson,
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Google, references to Chaser on,
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“go out” command,
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grammar

dolphin understanding of,
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and inference,
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three element sentences,
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two-element sentences,
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See also
language learning; semantics; syntax

Grendel, in
Beowulf
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Griggs, Jessica,
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Grindle (German shepherd),
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