Dog psychology.

Dog psychology asks many of the same fundamental questions about dog behavior that psychologists have asked about human behavior. How do dogs perceive and think about the world? How do they learn and what do they remember? How are their interactions with their physical and social environments shaped by biology, evolution, and experience? Do dogs have personalities? Why do some dogs exhibit symptoms of distress and how should clinical problems in dogs like anxiety, excessive fear, and compulsive behavior be treated? All of these questions are motivated by a desire to understand dog behavior in terms of underlying mental processes and internal states.