In a study by Lazareva and colleagues that is described in the textbook,pigeons were presented with photographs of people,flowers,cars,and chairs,and were taught to respond by pecking keys of different colours.What did this research demonstrate?
A)Pigeons were capable of categorizing objects in different ways.
B)Pigeons were responding exclusively on the basis of perceptual similarity.
C)Pigeons showed marked preferences for people in their response choices.
D)Pigeons could learn a complex task by applying blind trial-and-error solutions.

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This research demonstrated that pigeons were capable of categorizing objects based on their similarity, as evidenced by their ability to respond correctly to photographs of people, flowers, cars, and chairs. This suggests that pigeons have a rudimentary ability to form conceptual categories, and that they may be able to learn to categorize objects in different ways depending on the task demands.

In a Study by Lazareva and Colleagues That Is Described