INSTRUCTIONS

Phase 1: TRAINING

You present a stimuli that your pet can sense a range of.

• If one extreme of stimuli is presented, your pet is rewarded for a specific behavior A (such as going to the correct location to receive the reward).

• If the other extreme of stimuli is presented, your pet is rewarded for a different specific behavior B (such as going to a different location to receive the reward).

• There is a third, less desired, reward (less food, for example) that your pet receives if she does a third different specific behavior C (such as going to a third different location). The third reward is always received for that third behavior regardless of the sound. But your pet does this third behavior (and receives this lesser reward), no other reward is given (for this session).

• Frequency of this training is recorded. (At first treat is placed at correct location to teach association.) When pet seems to have learned where to go for extremes, phase 2 begins.

Phase 2: TESTING

• The stimulus is presented randomly throughout its range. The pet is still only rewarded as in phase 1.

• Record is made of stimuli and pet responses.

• Hypothesis: if the animal is aware of her knowing which behavior will be rewarded, she will increasingly do the third behavior (rather than risk no reward) as the stimulus is increasingly between extremes. (Null Hypothesis: if the animal is not aware of her knowing which behavior will be rewarded, she will not increasingly do the third behavior (rather than risk no reward) as the stimulus is increasingly between extremes.)