Hooded crows used in a test conducted by Wasserman and colleagues (2015) demonstrated the ability to pass a test for relational matching to sample training, something for which they had not been explicitly trained. To what did they attribute this finding?
A) Hooded crows are naturally able to do relational matching to sample tests
B) The crows' extensive training with identity matching to sample likely created a general relational concept
C) The crows were responding to unplanned, subtle differences in the stimuli
D) The crows were showing an ability that emerged from simpler training

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The researchers attributed the crows' ability to pass the relational matching to sample test to their extensive training with identity matching to sample, suggesting that this training likely helped them develop a general relational concept.

Hooded Crows Used in a Test Conducted by Wasserman and Colleagues