Week 4 - Non Human Cognition

Question 1

Sessile species

Answer 1

Plants, sponges, dont need brains

Question 2

Which animal loses movmeent with brain

Answer 2

Tunicates

Question 3

Behaviour works on a

Answer 3

Negative feed back loop

Question 4

Slime mold learning

Answer 4

Havututation and dehabituation to slightly harmful quinone, becomes tolerant, then when gone it goes back to being aversive to it.

Question 5

Pea plant

Answer 5

Grown in a maze, Classical conditioning, conditioned to gorw towards fan where the light is also located

Question 6

Mimosa pudica

Answer 6

• Less sensitivty to low light, vice versa = calculate risk rewards
• dishabituation fo rnovel stimuli (shaking)

Question 7

Fungi find there food in

Answer 7

Unprediclty places (down) and plants find it upwards ( sun = predictable)

Question 8

Neurons dont have neurons, but they can

Answer 8

Produce and transmit electrochemical signals

Question 9

Sensory activty of fungi

Olsson & Hansson (1995) presented

Answer 9

wood blocks to
wood-decomposing fungi and observed an increase in
electrical activity within the mycelium when the
hyphae were in contact with the wood

Question 10

TOXOPLASMOSA

Rats effects were

Answer 10

• General: infected rats are more active but have worse learning and
  memory capabilities than uninfected rats (Webster 2007)

• Specific: infected rats do not behave aversively to the presence of
cat urine, and in fact show a preference for it (Berdoy et al. 2000)

Question 11

Celepopods can

Answer 11

• solve mazes

- reconize ppl who r nice and mean

Question 12

Why didnt the cateiplers speperate? And whats it called

Answer 12

Called a pine processios

- didnt seperate bc they were baby ones with no experience, older ones seperates within seconds.

Question 13

THE ROLE OF CONSCIOUSNESS?

Answer 13

1. Conscious inessentialism:
2. Consciousness has a function:
3. Functionalism:

Question 14

1. Conscious inessentialism:
2. Consciousness has a function:
3. Functionalism:

Answer 14

1. Conscious inessentialism: Consciousness is separate from adaptive functions, and has no function of its own
   • aka the Zombie hypothesis; Then why do we have it? How do we know we’re not really zombies ourselves, who just think we’re conscious?
2. Consciousness has a function: Consciouness is separate from other adaptive functions, but is itself an adaptive function
   • What is that extra function? What could we not do without consciousness? When did it evolve and why?
3. Functionalism: Consciousness is not separable from adaptive functions