Mrs. Aftab is just beginning to experience sensorineural hearing loss. She is likely to have the greatest difficulty hearing sounds of:

Related Mcqs:

1. Because she believes that boys are naughtier than girls, Mrs. Zumpano, a second-grade teacher, watches boys more closely than she watch girls for any signs of misbehavior. Mrs. Zumpano’s surveillance strategy best illustrates:

   A. the framing effect
   B. the availability heuristic
   C. confirmation bias
   D. functional fixedness

2. 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

3. Hearing a sequence of sounds of different pitches is to______as recognizing the sound sequence as a familiar melody is to:

   A. Sensory interaction; feature detection
   B. Sensation; perception
   C. Absolute threshold; difference threshold
   D. The just noticeable difference; accommodation

4. After he suffered a stroke, Mr. Salim’s physical coordination skills and responsiveness to sensory stimulation quickly returned to normal unfortunately, however, he began to experience unusual difficulty figuring out how to find his way to various locations in his neighborhood. it most likely that Mr. Salim suffered damage to his:

   A. cerebellum
   B. autonomic nervous system
   C. thalamus
   D. association areas

5. After Rauf’s serious snow-skiing accident, doctors detected damage to his cerebral cortex in Wernicke’s area. Because of the damage, Rauf is most likely to experience difficulty in:

   A. understanding what others are saying
   B. recognizing familiar faces
   C. pronouncing words correctly
   D. controlling voluntary muscles

6. Because she was listening to the news on the radio, Mrs. Salim didn’t perceive a word her husband was saying. Her experience best illustrates:

   A. Perceptual adaptation
   B. Relative clarity
   C. Change blindness
   D. The cocktail party effect

7. Someone whose corpus callosum has been cut will experience difficulty in ___________?

   A. Naming an object held in the left hand
   B. Naming an object held in the right hand
   C. Recognizing an object held in the left hand
   D. Recognizing an object held in the right hand

8. Someone whose corpus callosum has been cut will experience difficulty in ___________?

   A. Naming an object held in the left hand
   B. Naming an object held in the right hand
   C. Recognizing an object held in the left hand
   D. Recognizing an object held in the right hand

9. Although Cara has been obese for as long as she can remember, she is determined to lose excess body weight with a low-calories diet. Cara is most likely to have difficulty becoming and staying thin because:

   A. the number of calories a person consumes daily has no effect on body weight
   B. she may have a higher-than-average set point for body weight
   C. her resting metabolic rate will increase and prompt her to over eat vigorous exercise
   D. fat cells can be lost only with vigorous exercise

10. People experience learned a helplessness when they encounter uncontrollability. This generates a cluster of syndromes. Which of the following is more likely?

    A. Cognitive, perceptual and deficits
    B. Cognitive, perceptual and motivational deficits
    C. Emotional, attitude and motivational deficits
    D. Cognitive, motivational and emotional deficits