Chapter 282: Hide and Seek Experiment

Sun Xiaomeng bit her lower lip tightly and looked at Richard with fixed eyes.

Although she tried her best to think and remember, she only dabbled in this knowledge out of interest after all, and many of the documents were in English, mixed with a lot of technical terms in animal psychology, which made it very difficult to read and left a fragmented impression , not very profound.

In addition, the noise from downstairs also made her unable to concentrate, and she was interrupted by the construction noise several times when she vaguely remembered something. She wished she could rush downstairs immediately, let them stop first, and continue after she figured it out.

The kitchen door was pushed open again without a sound, and Sun Xiaomeng and Richard also looked at the door. She thought it was Zhang Zian who had returned, and felt even more anxious. If he made jokes inappropriately, she would not be able to remember.

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

Xinghai squatted at the door energetically, staring at Richard with silver-gray eyes.

"Huh?" Richard felt that it seemed to have something to tell him, and asked aloud.

"Meow ~ hide and seek!" Xinghai only said these few words, then turned around and ran away quickly.

To Sun Xiaomeng's ears, Xinghai just meowed cutely a few times.

She felt more and more that Xinghai was very strange today, and he approached her on his own initiative many times.

"Gah? Hide and seek?" Richard repeated.

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

"Richard, are you here to play hide and seek?" She turned to ask Richard.

"Gah?"

Richard didn't understand what she meant. It really wants to say that my uncle doesn't know how to play this kind of children's games, if you want to play, go to that black and white kitten, I will not accompany you - but facing Sun Xiaomeng, it can't say these words.

Since Sun Xiaomeng already knew that it could understand her, and since it didn't refuse, it was right to assume that it acquiesced.

She looked around, Zhang Zian's kitchen wasn't too messy for a single man, but now she wanted it to be more messy.

"Just them." She saw several glass seasoning bottles on the shelf, each of which was the size of a child's fist, and contained chicken essence, sesame oil, vinegar, salt and sugar.

These five seasoning bottles are matching, and the sizes are exactly the same, only the colors of the bottle caps are different, which are red, yellow, green, blue, and white.

I'm sorry, I borrowed it without authorization, and I will apologize to you when you come back later, she said to Zhang Zian silently in her heart.

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

Richard thought it would be a piece of cake for him to tell himself the color of the caps, and before she could ask, he replied: "Red, yellow, green, blue, white."

Sun Xiaomeng smiled, "No, I didn't mean to ask you about the color of these bottle caps... But what you said is absolutely correct, it's amazing. Well, now pay attention to my words, how many bottles are there in total?"

"Five." Richard quickly answered, this question is too childish.

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

"How many are there now?"

Richard hesitated, not sure if the blocked one counted.

"Five." It replied.

"How many can you see?" she asked.

"Four." This time it answered immediately.

Hearing these two answers, Sun Xiaomeng's heart missed half a beat, and his palms were slightly sweaty.

This seems to be a simple experiment, but it is the most outstanding cognitive development theorist Piaget in the 20th century. The criterion used to measure children's cognitive ability. He got inspiration and inspiration when he used toys to play hide-and-seek with his son , and based on this, a complete and detailed theory was formed, which was named "object permanence experiment".

In simple and straightforward words, this experiment is to put an object there for the subject to see, then block or cover the object, and then observe the subject's reaction. If the subject knew that the object didn't disappear, but remained in place, but was just out of sight, it proved that the subject had understood the meaning of "existence".

In many cases, the process of scientific experiments is very simple. The difference between scientists and ordinary people is that they have a pair of eyes and can interpret experiments from novel angles. For example, Galileo let two iron balls touch the ground at the same time to prove the law of free fall. Another example is Newton used a prism to decompose sunlight into seven colors, laying the foundation for spectral analysis...

Being invisible to the eye but knowing that it is 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. What she was facing was not 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.

She took a deep breath, tried to maintain a calm expression in order not to make Richard feel stressed, and said, "Okay, pay attention, I'm going to increase the difficulty."

Sun Xiaomeng lifted the soup pot halfway, quietly hid the red bottle inside in the palm of his hand, buttoned 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 lifted the soup pot with his left hand, and the bottom of the pot was empty.

"Gah?" Richard exclaimed in surprise, and then realized, "Your right hand."

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

Richard thought for a while, "In his pocket."

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

"Congratulations, you guessed it right."

"Quack! It's a piece of cake!"

Richard was in a good mood to be praised by her. It seems to remember something, it seems to have played a similar game before, the form is slightly different but the essence is the same. It's just that it didn't like this game at that time, because it was very difficult to play, and it often encountered failures and setbacks, so it was always in a bad mood. However, after becoming an elf, the game seemed so simple that it scolded its past self several times as "idiot" in its heart.

Sun Xiaomeng smiled unnaturally, she couldn't accurately describe what mood she was in at this time, Richard refreshed her understanding again, and was able to prove through this layer of experiments that its cognitive ability has reached at least the level of a 2-year-old child, and The experiment process was extremely easy and passed in one go.

She believes that even if the next step of the experiment is carried out, Richard can still pass, so where is its upper limit? 3 years? 4 years? 5 years old? 10 years old? 12 years old?

It can speak, think, and recognize. Apart from having the appearance of a bird, is there any essential difference from humans?

In her memory, there is one and only one parrot in the world that passed this experiment, and it stopped at the cognitive level of a 5-year-old child due to its untimely death, and the death of that gray parrot is considered to be an important issue in the scientific and educational circles. huge loss.

Now, standing in front of her is a living parrot, perhaps even better than the dead one!

She felt very sad, why did all the good things happen to Zhang Zian?

The kitchen door was pushed open again—with the experience of the previous two times, she thought it was Xinghai who pushed it open again. She looked down and wanted to say hello to Xinghai and tell him to stay and don't run away, but she only saw a pair of clothes. Feet in casual shoes.

Zhang Zian looked at her, then at Richard, and felt that there was something wrong with the atmosphere in the kitchen.

"What are you doing?" he asked.