As Stanley Coren's work makes clear, the total measure of a dog's intelligence is composed of three different dimensions: adaptive intelligence, which refers to learning and problem-solving abilities in which dogs adapt to their environment; working and obedience intelligence, the capacity of dogs to respond appropriately to learned commands and to accomplish tasks in the real world; and instinctive intelligence, those aspects of a dog's mental makeup that are genetically passed on from generation to generation.
