​What Did Early Comparative Psychologists Discover About Animal Intelligence

question 70

Multiple Choice

​What did early comparative psychologists discover about animal intelligence?

• A)Animal intelligence is directly related to the volume of the cerebral cortex.
• B)​A species that seems intelligent on one task might do poorly on another.
• C)Animal intelligence continues to increase, generation by generation.
• D)​Using a set of five tasks, it is possible to rank-order animals in intelligence.

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