在职申硕英语考试

【单选题】Passage FiveIn the early 20th century, a horse namedClever Hans was believed capable of counting and other impressive mental tasks.After years of great performance, psychologists discovered that though Hans was certainly clever, he was not clever in the way everyone expecte
D、The horse was cleverly picking up on tiny, unintentional bodily and facial signals given out not only by his trainer, but also by the audience.Aware of the "Clever Hans" effect, Lisa Lit at the University ofCalifornia and her colleagues wondered whether the beliefs of professional dog handlers might similarly affect the outcomes of searches for drugs and explosives. Remarkably,Dr Lit found, they do. Dr Lit asked 18 professional dog handlers and their dogs to complete brief searches.Before the searches, the handlers were informed that some of the search areas might contain up to three target scents, and also that in two cases those scents would be marked by pieces of red paper. What the handlers were not told was that none of the search areas contained the scents of either drugs or explosives.Any "detections" made by the teams thus had to be false.The findings reveal that of 144 searches, only 21 were clean (no alerts).All the others raised one alert or more. In total, the teams raised 225 alerts. While the sheer number of false alerts stuckDr Lit as fascinating, it was where they took place that was of greatest interest.When handlers could see a red piece of paper, allegedly marking a location of interest, they were much more likely to say that their dogs signaled an alert. The human handlers were not only distracted on almost every occasion by the stimulus aimed at them, but also transmitted that distraction to their animals—who responded accordingly. To mix metaphors, the dogs were crying "wolf" at the unconscious signal of their handlersHow much that matters in the real world is unclear,But it might, If a handler, for example, unconsciously "profiled" people being sniffed by drug- or explosive-detecting dog at an airport, false positives could abound, That is not only bad for innocent travelers, but might distract the team from catching the guilty. The dog handlers learned before the searches that ______.
A、each search area contained three target scents

B、there was actually no target scent in the search area
C．some target scents may be labeled with a special mark

D、their dogs were expected to find the scents of red paper

网考网参考答案：C
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