Pet King

Sun Xiaomeng bit his lower lip and stared at Richard with a fixed look.

Although she tried hard to think and remember, she was only interested in this knowledge after all, and many of the documents were in English, mixed with a lot of technical terms in animal psychology. Not so profound.

In addition, the noise coming downstairs made her unable to concentrate, and she was interrupted by the construction noise several times when she vaguely remembered something. She could not wait to rush downstairs immediately, and let them stop first, and then continue after she figured it out.

The kitchen door was opened silently again, and Sun Xiaomeng and Richard looked at the door as well. She thought it was Zhang Zi'an back, and her heart was even more anxious. If he was gagging inappropriately, she would not even remember it.

There was no one at the door, and her eyes moved downward.

Xinghai squatted in the door very spiritually, with silver eyes staring at Richard.

"Ga?" Richard asked as if he wanted to tell himself something.

"Meow ~ hide-and-seek!" Xinghai only said a few words, and turned and ran away quickly.

At Sun Xiaomeng's hearing, Xinghai just meowed cutely.

More and more she felt that Xinghai today was strange, and she approached her repeatedly.

"Ga? Hide and seek?" Richard repeated.

As if a flash of lightning split the ancient chaos, Sun Xiaomeng suddenly remembered it, it was hide and seek!

"Richard, come and play hide and seek?" She turned to ask Richard.

"Ga?"

Richard didn't understand what she meant. It wants to say that Uncle Ben will not play this kind of kid's game. If you want to play, go with that black and white kitten. Uncle Ben will not accompany him. However, facing Sun Xiaomeng, he can't say these words.

Since Sun Xiaomeng already knows that she can understand her, and since she does not refuse, she has the right to acquiesce.

She looked around. As a single man, Zhang Zi'an's kitchen wasn't too messy, but she now wanted it to be messier.

"Just them." She saw several glass spice bottles on the shelf, each the size of a child's fist, filled with chicken essence, sesame oil, vinegar, salt, and sugar. The five seasoning bottles are matched, the size is exactly the same, only the color of the bottle caps are different, which are red, yellow, green, blue, and white.

Sorry, borrow it without permission, and apologize to you when you come back, she said to Zhang Zi'an silently in her heart.

Sun Xiaomeng placed the five bottles one by one in front of Richard.

Richard thought he wanted to identify the color of the bottle caps, which was a piece of cake for it, and she answered, "Red, yellow, green, blue, and white."

Sun Xiaomeng smiled, "No, I didn't mean to ask you the color of these bottle caps ... but what you said is absolutely correct, great. OK, now pay attention to me, how many bottles are there?"

"Five." Richard answered quickly, and the question was too pediatric.

She picked up a stainless steel soup pot and buckled it up on the red bottle, covering the latter completely.

"How many are there now?"

Richard hesitated a moment, it wasn't sure if the blocked one counted.

"Five." It answered.

"How many can you see?" She asked.

"Four." This time it answered immediately.

After hearing these two answers, Sun Xiaomeng's heart missed a half-beat, and her hands sweated slightly.

This may seem like a simple experiment, but it is the criterion used by Piaget, the most outstanding cognitive development theorist of the 20th century, to determine children's cognitive ability. He used toys to get hide and seek with his son. Based on this, a complete and comprehensive theory has been formed, which is named "object permanent experiment".

In simple words, this experiment is to place an object there for the subject, then block or cover the object, and then observe the subject's response. If the subject knows that the object has not disappeared and remains in place, but is invisible, this proves that the subject has understood the meaning of "existence".

Many times, the process of scientific experiments is very simple. The difference between scientists and ordinary people is that they have a pair of clever eyes and can interpret the experiment from a novel perspective. Newton used a triangular prism to break down sunlight into seven colors, laying the foundation for spectral analysis ...

The invisibility of the eye, but the fact that it exists there, means that Richard's cognitive ability is at least equivalent to that of a 1-year-old child.

Sun Xiaomeng put away all contempt. She is not facing a pet bird, but an intelligent creature. The difference between Richard and other parrots is probably greater than the difference between Einstein and ordinary people.

Taking a deep breath, in order not to make Richard feel stressed, she tried to maintain a calm expression, saying, "Okay, watch out, I'm going to make it a bit more difficult."

Sun Xiaomeng lifted the soup pot halfway, hid the red bottle inside in the palm of his hand calmly, fastened the soup pot again, and put the right hand holding the red bottle behind him.

"Where's the red bottle?" She asked Richard.

Richard didn't see her quietly take the red bottle away and replied, "Under the pot."

Sun Xiaomeng opened the soup pot with his left hand, and the pot was empty.

"Ga?" Richard cried in surprise, then reacted, "your right hand."

Sun Xiaomeng took out his right hand from behind, and his right hand was also empty.

Richard thought about it, "in his pocket."

Sun Xiaomeng nodded, took the red bottle out of the white coat's pocket, and placed it side by side with the other four bottles.

"Congratulations, you guessed it."

"Quack! A piece of cake!"

With her compliments, Richard was in a good mood. It seems to remember something, and it seems to have played similar games before, with slightly different forms but essentially the same. It was just that it didn't like the game at that time, because it was difficult to play, and often encountered failures and setbacks, so it was always in a bad mood. However, after becoming an elf, the game seemed so simple, making it scold several "idiots" in his heart.

Sun Xiaomeng smiled unnaturally, she could not describe exactly what mood she was at this time, Richard refreshed her knowledge again, and can prove through this layer of experiments that her cognitive ability reaches at least the level of a 2 year old child, and The experimental process was exceptionally easy and passed once.

She believes ~ www.readwn.com ~ Even if the next experiment is carried out, Richard can still pass, so what is the upper limit of it? 3 years? 4 years? 5 years old? 10 years old? 12 years old?

It speaks, thinks, and knows. Besides being a bird, is it fundamentally different from humans?

In her memory, there is only one parrot in the world that passed this experiment. It stopped at the cognitive level of a 5-year-old child due to his early death. The death of that gray parrot is considered to be the scientific and educational circles. Huge loss.

Now, a living wise parrot standing in front of her might even be better than the dead one!

She felt very sad. Why did Zhang Zi'an meet all the good things?

The kitchen door was pushed open again—with the previous two experiences, she thought it was Xinghai pushed open again, and her eyes moved down. Feet in casual shoes.

Zhang Zi'an looked at her and Richard, and felt that there was something wrong with the atmosphere in the kitchen.

"What are you doing?" He asked.