Dumas C
Département de psychologie, Université du Québec à Montréal, Canada.
J Comp Psychol. 1992 Dec;106(4):404-10. doi: 10.1037/0735-7036.106.4.404.
A single invisible displacement object permanence task was administered to 19 cats (Felis catus). In this task, cats watched a target object from behind a transparent panel. However, cats had to walk around an opaque panel to reach the object. While cats were behind the opaque panel, the object was hidden behind one of two screens. As cats did not perceive the disappearance of the object behind the target screen, the object was invisibly hidden. Results showed that cats solved this task with great flexibility, which markedly contrasts with what has been observed in previous research. The discussion emphasizes the difference between the typical Piagetian task in which the information necessary to succeed must be dealt with in retrospective way, whereas in our task cats had to anticipate a new position of the object. The ecological relevance of this new task is also discussed.
对19只猫（家猫）进行了一项单一的不可见位移客体永久性任务。在这项任务中，猫从一块透明面板后面观看一个目标物体。然而，猫必须绕过一块不透明面板才能拿到该物体。当猫在不透明面板后面时，物体被藏在两个屏幕之一的后面。由于猫没有察觉到目标屏幕后面物体的消失，物体是被无形地隐藏起来的。结果表明，猫以极大的灵活性解决了这项任务，这与之前研究所观察到的情况形成了明显对比。讨论强调了典型的皮亚杰任务与我们这项任务之间的差异，在典型任务中，成功所需的信息必须以回溯的方式处理，而在我们的任务中，猫必须预测物体的新位置。还讨论了这项新任务的生态相关性。
