A. Wavelength
B. Decibels
C. Phonemes
D. Hertz
Related Mcqs:
- In Psychophysical research the absolute threshold has been arbitrarily define as:
A. the stimulus intensity that can be detected 100% of the time
B. the stimulus intensity that can be detected 50% of the time
C. the minimum amount of difference in intensity needed to tell two stimuli apart
D. a constant proportion of the size of the initial stimulus - 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 - The absolute threshold for touch is_________?
A. Pressure of one had pushing on your head for 30 seconds
B. A puff of air blown in your face from 2 feet away
C. Water from a shower landing on your back with a velocity of one foot per second
D. The wing of a bee falling on your cheek from a distance of 1 centimeter - Which theory would suggest that watching a horror movie late at night could lower your absolute threshold for sound as you subsequently tired to fall asleep?
A. Prime theory
B. Opponent process theory
C. Signal detection theory
D. Frequency theory - 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 - 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 - After hearing rumors about the outbreak of an infectious disease, Alyosha began to perceive his normal aches and pains as disease related symptoms. His reaction best illustrated the impact of:
A. The cocktail party effect
B. Perceptual set
C. Relative clarity
D. The Ponzo illusion - Hearing aids are of no use to an individual with______deafness.
A. Ossicle
B. Nerve
C. Conduction
D. Auditory - Hearing voices that are not really there would be called a(n):
A. hallucination
B. delusion
C. auditory regression
D. depressive psychosis - The __________________ lobe is to hearing the occipital lobe is to vision:
A. frontal
B. temporal
C. Parietal
D. cerebellar
