The mind of a cat.
The sound of a spoon in a bowl holds her attention and she may even call and pace about before she is finally allowed to lap up the last traces of milk and such. Typical.
Today I had a small scoop of vanilla ice cream with a serving of apple-mango streusel: Delphy was in licking the bowl as soon as I put my spoon down.
But I had put the spoon in the bowl, so when she stopped licking, I removed the spoon, exposing more yummy ice cream melt. No reaction as she sat by the bowl washing. I made the usual noises of a spoon in the bowl when cleaning up after cereal or ice cream.
Stimulus constancy is not enough? Delphy walked calmly across the dining room table, hopped to a chair and then down to the floor and on her way.
She was done with that bowl. She had finished. Demanding and insistent and persistent pest that she is, she was done and on her way.
Chalk it up to animal behavior Psy201 "distractability" as "failure to emit response" to "ambiguous stimuli".
Stimulus, a goad or prompt to action.
A long stick with a pointed end used for prodding animals. 2. An agent or means of prodding or urging; a stimulus
"attention": concept with a dubious history in psychology; compare "attitude", "awareness","threshold"
The world of the cat is not our world, but a cat-world, and only as typical as a cat will have it.
Quasi-Russian: [ вид ] now cat you seeing: seen [kind of] cat which happens here, which does things there.
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