ANIMAL COGNITION

Undergraduate

What do animals think? Do they have emotions? Topics such as animal memory, numerosity, and communication, as well as more controversial topics such as animal emotions, morality, and empathy will be addressed in this course. We will explore the developments in both Cognitive Psychology and Neuroscience, that are revealing fascinating insights into the animal mind. An underlying perspective of the course is the theme of how our perceptions of the cognitive abilities of animals shapes our expectations and relationships with them and how this, in turn, impacts on both the questions we ask and our animal welfare practices. Cross-level listed with VHM 8520 PREREQUISITES: PSY 1010, 1020, 3210; AND EITHER all three of PSY 2700, 2730, 2750 OR PSY 2780 and 2790 or permission of instructor. Students who do not have 2700, 2730, and 2750 OR 2780- and 2790 but do have equivalent statistics research methods courses may enrol with permission of the instructor Three hours a week