Sounds presented to the right ear are registered:

Related Mcqs:

1. The barn owl’s right ear opens slightly upward while its left ear opens slightly downward. This asymmetry is most useful for enabling the owl to detect the________of a sound.

   A. loudness
   B. amplitude
   C. wavelength
   D. location

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. The vocal apparatus for producing speech sounds are useless unless the organism has which area in its brain developed in order to coordinate these movements?

   A. hypothalamus
   B. thalamus
   C. Broca’s area
   D. fissure of Ronaldo

4. Speech like but meaningless sounds appear between 3 months to one year is termed as _______________?

   A. syntax
   B. babble
   C. conserver
   D. none of these

5. 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

6. 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

7. 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

8. 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

9. Sound vibrations in the ear create neural impulses received in which of the following cortex locations?

   A. temporal lobe
   B. occipital lobe
   C. parietal lobe
   D. frontal lobe

10. The first part of the ear that vibrates in response to incoming sound waves is the _______________?

    A. ossicles
    B. eardrum
    C. basilar membrane
    D. tectorial membrane