PSYC 21800 - Animal Cognition

Course Credit: 1
Animal cognition is designed to attract students from a variety of disciplines (especially psychology, biology, anthropology and neuroscience), to explore the comparative science of cognitive processes in a wide range of animals, including humans. We examine research from a number of different fields and perspectives, including experimental psychology, ethology, neuroscience, physical anthropology, biology, evolutionary psychology, and developmental psychology. The course covers a wide range of animal abilities (in a remarkable range of species), including associate learning, navigational abilities, perceptual and memory processes, concept and rule acquisition, quantitative abilities, cognitive models of timing abilities, observational learning and imitation, self-recognition and self-awareness, cooperation, language and the capacity to teach others. [HSS]