Analysis Of The Dog Science-Fair Project By Tricia Edgar

Hypothesis: Dogs are capable of understanding human language. People and animals live well together. Some of the animals like dogs are kept as pet. They are fun to be with. They can be named and they respond to their name when they are called. Some of the dogs are trained to do tricks. They are commanded for entertainment or as a helping dog. When the dog is familiar to a command, they seem to understand the word and act on it. Do dogs understand the word we say? The Dog Science-fair Project by Tricia Edgar is about whether dogs understand english to follow a command. Does the dog really understand english? In their physical aspects, dogs have a sensitive hearing. The dogs are keen in hearing. When a dog is trained, issuing a command like

Discussion: Results from Edgar are almost the same. He state that different dogs will react in different ways. For step 5, replacing command with same sound, he claims that dogs may look confused and sit halfway or may not sit at all. In my experiment, none of the dogs did the command right. In step 6 Edgar states that using a completely different word and use the same tone of voice; the dogs might not obey at

Victoria Ratcliffe at the University of Sussex in England conducted an experiment whether dogs can differentiate speech with meaningful words and sounds that only contain inflections. She brought 250 dogs into the lab. And then for each one, Ratcliffe put a speaker on either side of the dog's head. At first, she played commands that has meaningful words and then after some instances was just gibberish words. When dogs still heard meaningful command about 80 percent of the animals followed it. When the dogs heard the command with the same sound, most of them did not follow the intended command (Doucleff