Consciousness & Awareness

Question 1

The 5 levels of awareness (Broom)

Answer 1

1. Unaware
2. Perceptual
3. Cognitive
4. Assessment
5. Executive

Question 2

Meta cognition

Answer 2

Thoughts about thoughts

Question 3

‘The hard problem’

Answer 3

Can never truly know of another beings subjective experience of consciousness

Question 4

Consciousness definition

Answer 4

Capacity to perceive and respond to stimuli

Question 5

Awareness definition

Answer 5

Ability to reflect on actions, not just perform them

Question 6

Sentience definition

Answer 6

Having the capacity to feel

Question 7

Culture definition

Answer 7

Socially transmitted behaviour unique to one location of species, with a certain level of complexity

Question 8

Examples of animal language

Answer 8

Alex the parrot - abstract concepts
Alarm calls - Campells, vervets, diana monkeys, mongoose, prairie dogs
ASL - Great apes

Question 9

Theory of mind definition

Answer 9

Capacity to assess what others think or feel

Predicting behaviours of others is a survival advantage

Question 10

Affective state definition

Answer 10

emotions and other feelings that are experienced as pleasant or unpleasant rather than hedonically neutral - Fraser 2008

Question 11

Valence

Answer 11

Where on the scale - ie from happy to sad

Question 12

What part of the brain is correlated with cognitive complexity?

Answer 12

Cortex in mammals ,or homologous structures in others

Question 13

What are the 3 criteria for episodic recall?

Answer 13

What, where, when