fourteen

Question 1

two aspect of consciousness

Answer 1

-awareness- of the environment and self
-wakefullness, level of conciousness

Question 2

behaviour as an indicator of conciousness
three scenarios

Answer 2

-crow
-ants
-goose

Question 3

New Caledonian crow

Answer 3

bends wire to be able to pick up a bucket that is full of food
-high level of cognition

Question 4

ants

Answer 4

-ants clear sand from another ants abdomen
-bite away rope that is holding down ant
-could assume that task is not that complex as ants do not have many neurons

Question 5

grey-lag goose

Answer 5

-will look after anything that looks like an egg
-anything outside the nest that rolls triggers the response

Question 6

mirror-self recognition test

Answer 6

–if the animal reaches for the nose first to feel dot, self recongintion
-if animal reaches for nose after movement and recognition of self, then not self recognition

Question 7

rem sleep

Answer 7

-high states of conciousness even though asleep

Question 8

locked in syndrome

Answer 8

-fully conscious, but unable to move the Body, damage to central part of pons

Question 9

bistable percept

Answer 9

perceive the same stimulus in two ways
-stimulus is stable however perception is not

Question 10

explicit memory- rhesus monkey

Answer 10

when a delay period was introduced, accuracy of the monkeys decays, probability of the monkey not taking the test increases the loner the delay

Question 11

lucid dreaming

Answer 11

impairment in the abilty to integrate info may unlike the fading in and out of conciousness in non rem sleep early in the night

Question 12

functional connectivity

Answer 12

-conciousness requires different parts of the brain to communicate with each other

Question 13

a number of reasearchers have begun searching for the

Answer 13

neural correlates of consciousness NCC

Question 14

several studies suggest that

Answer 14

functional connectivity may a critical factor underlying aspects of conciousness