Collection 2: How Smart Are Animals?

As you read Dorothy Hinshaw Patent's "How Smart Are Animals?" learn this word list. Here are links to lists for texts in Grade 6's Collection 2: The Mixer, Tribute to the Dog, Animal Wisdom and The Last Wolf, How Smart Are Animals?, Animal Snoops
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  1. Newfoundland dog
    a breed of very large heavy dogs with a thick coarse usually black coat; highly intelligent dogs and vigorous swimmers; developed in Newfoundland
  2. evolve
    undergo development
  3. attribute
    credit to
  4. psychiatrist
    a specialist in the treatment of mental disorders
  5. experimental psychology
    the branch of psychology that uses experimental methods to study psychological issues
  6. double-blind procedure
    an experimental procedure in which neither the subjects of the experiment nor the persons administering the experiment know the critical aspects of the experiment
  7. phenomenon
    a remarkable person, thing, or development
  8. behaviorism
    an approach to psychology that emphasizes observable measurable behavior
  9. inconsistency
    the quality of lacking a harmonious uniformity among parts
  10. discrimination
    the cognitive process of recognizing differences
  11. complexity
    the quality of being intricate and compounded
  12. aptitude
    inherent ability
  13. manufacture
    the act of making something (a product) from raw materials
  14. virtually
    slightly short of or not quite accomplished; all but
  15. various
    distinctly dissimilar or unlike
Created on Wed Jul 02 14:55:17 EDT 2014 (updated Fri Jul 04 11:38:46 EDT 2014)

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