A. Sensory interaction; feature detection
B. Sensation; perception
C. Absolute threshold; difference threshold
D. The just noticeable difference; accommodation
Related Mcqs:
- Mrs. Aftab is just beginning to experience sensorineural hearing loss. She is likely to have the greatest difficulty hearing sounds of:
A. High frequency and high amplitude
B. Low frequency and high amplitude
C. Low frequency and low amplitude
D. High frequency and low amplitude - Waqas was having his hearing tested and a number of the tones that were presented were so faint he was not able to detect them. These faint sounds would:
A. Inhibit action potentials from reaching the terminal buttons
B. Cause action potentials that were took weak to reach the terminal buttons
C. Fall below William’s absolute threshold for sound
D. Cause more inhibitory than excitatory synapses - The local fire department sounds the 12 o’clock whistle. The process by which your ears convert the sound waves from the siren into neural impulses is an example of:
A. Transduction
B. Sensory adaptation
C. Parallel processing
D. Accommodation - According to Erikson, trust is to______as identity is to______.
A. infancy; childhood
B. infancy; adolescence
C. adulthood; childhood
D. childhood; adolescence - Consider this sequence: (1) food, (2) salivation with food (3) light with food, (4) salivation with light. This procedure for presenting stimuli and observing responses with dogs is based on Pavlov’s experiments, and represents which sequence of classical conditioning?
A. Unconditioned stimulus, conditioned response, conditioned stimulus, unconditioned response
B. Conditioned stimulus, conditioned response, unconditioned stimulus, unconditioned response
C. Unconditioned stimulus, conditioned stimulus, unconditioned response, conditioned response
D. Unconditioned stimulus, unconditioned response, conditioned stimulus, conditioned response
E. Conditioned response, conditioned stimulus, unconditioned response, unconditioned stimulus - An 80-decibel sound is______times louder than a 60-decibel sound.
A. 20
B. 2
C. 10
D. 100 - Unfortunately, too many children are encouraged to emphasize their rights and to minimize their responsibilities. Recognizing the fact that a growing child has many needs that must be satisfied some parents and teachers become over-concerned about providing healthful conditions for:
A. Learning
B. Growth
C. Research
D. Mental state - While reading a novel, Rizvi isn’t easily distracted by the sounds of the TV or even by his brothers’ loud arguments. This best illustrates:
A. The phi phenomenon
B. Perceptual constancy
C. Interposition
D. Selective attention - The absolute threshold for hearing is arbitrarily defined as zero:
A. Wavelength
B. Decibels
C. Phonemes
D. Hertz - Hearing aids are of no use to an individual with______deafness.
A. Ossicle
B. Nerve
C. Conduction
D. Auditory
