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psychoacoustics

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what happens in brain and how we perceive sound

study of the relationship between physical stimuli and psychological responses to which they give rise.

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physical acoustics

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science of sound

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sound

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is a propagated change or disturbance in the density, and therefore in the pressure of an elastic medium.

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sound travels through air in the form of

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waves

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sound wave

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a period of compression and a period rarefaction

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Brownian motion

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the rapid and random movement of air particles

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solid is more elastic than______ and liquid is more elastic than a _____

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liquid, gas

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All mechanical waves require

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1) some source of disturbance
2) a medium that can be disturbed
3) some physical connection through which adjacent portion of the medium can influence each other.

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sound travels by

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moving objects such as loud speaker and moving air such as organ pipes

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transverse is _______________to sound wave

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perpendicular

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longitudinal wave

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a wave in which the particles of the medium move along the same axis as the wave

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frequency

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the number of complete oscillations of a vibrating body per unit of time. in Acoustics the unit of measurement is cycles per second (CPS) or hertz (Hz).

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13
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sinewave

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the waveform of a pure tone showing simple harmonic motion

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pure tone

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a tone of only one frequency

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15
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The two major effects on frequency are

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mass and stiffness

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resonant frequency

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the natural rate of vibration of a mass

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amplitude

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max height above resting spot; the extent of the vibratory movement of a mass from its position of rest to that point farthest from the position of rest

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18
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few rarefactions and compressions means a _____frequency sound

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low

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small amplitude

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soft sounds

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20
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infrasound

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frequency too low for human hearing

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ultrasound

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frequency too high for humans to hear

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velocity of a sound wave

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the speed with which it ravels from the source to another point

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when temperature and humidity increase the speed of sound_____

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increases

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wavelength

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distance between peaks, measured from any point on the pressure wave to the same point on the next wave.

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phase
the relationship in time between two or more waves
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in phase
two waves exactly equal, increase amplitude
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out of phase
cancel each other out, there is silence
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fundamental frequency
the lowest frequency of vibration in a complex sound
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periodic sounds
no overtone, exactly one frequency, a complex sound that repeats over time.
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aperiodic sounds
vary randomly over time, do not have fundamental frequencies and are usually perceived as noise.
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power of a sound goes with _______of a sound
intensity
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intensity
the amount of sound energy per unit of area
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dyne
is how much pressure a sound causes | the force required to accelerate a mass of one gram at a rate of one centimeter per second squared.
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decibel based on a _________ scale
logarithm
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zero decibels means
the softest sound the best ears can hear
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dB Intensity Levels
how much power to make sound - watts/cm^2 (intensity levels double increased by 3)
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dB sound pressure level
how much pressure change - dyne/cm^2 (sound pressure level doubles increased by 6)
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dB Hearing level
decibel level for testing human hearing
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dB sound level
sound level above the patients threshold
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quality
the vividness or identifying characteristics of a soudn
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All sound waves posses
speed, frequency, wavelength, phase, period and amplitude
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All sound waves also reflect
echo, diffract and reverberate
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loudness
psychological experience most directly related to sound pressure/intensity
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The psychological correlate of frequency is
pitch
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The decibel reference on audiometers is
hearing level
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Pitch
the subjective impressions of the highness or lowness of a sound
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Mel
is a perceived scale of pitches judged by listeners. how a person perceives pitch
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Phon
psychoacoustic measure of loudness
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localization
the ability to determine the specific location of a sound source
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critical bands
regions in the cochlea where the hearing nerves allow us to perceive different pitches.
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masking
the threshold shift of one sound that is caused by the introduction of a second sound
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Impedance
the opposition it offers to the transmission acoustic energy. Stopping sound wave
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pure tone audiometer
the device allows for a comparison of any persons hearing threshold to that of an established norm
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loudness levels
-10 to 120 dB HL
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audiometer earphones are use to test hearing by
air conduction
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bone conduction
an oscillator is placed on the forehead or mastoid to test hearing
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Speech Audiometer
test through speaker need to be calibrated | usual range is from -10 to 110 dB HL
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audiometers measure frequency and intensity. The frequencies range from
250 Hz to 8000 Hz.
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period
1/frequency. Time of complete vibration
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source of vibration
such as vocal folds
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Source of energy
how much power it takes to produce the speech is IL watts/cm^2
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a medium
causes changes in pressure
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receiver
we use the decibel scale to represent how loud or soft the voice is
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sound acts the same no matter what/who produces it
True
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two sine waves may be contrasted by their difference in ________, _________, and _______
frequency intensity phase
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Discussion of decibels meaningless without a _______
reference
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velocity of sound is its ______
speed
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Number of beats per second is determined by the difference between two _________
frequencies
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Sound wave made up of a number of different sinusoids with each different frequencies
complex wave
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Increased threshold air conduction and bone conduction
sensorineural
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hearing loss by air conduction
conductive hearing loss
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bony protrusion is in ______
mastoid
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normal air conduction threshold
normal hearing
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sound travels through ear in form of this _______
sound wave
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waveform of a pure tone showing simple harmonic motion
sine wave
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waves are describes as ______ and _______
compressions and rarefactions
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another name for cycles per second
hertz
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number of complete oscillations of a vibrating body per unit of time
frequency
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cochlea
organ of hearing
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a decrease in strength of sound
attenuation
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auditory nerve
connects ear to brain
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barotrauma
sudden changes of pressure

Intro to Audiology (12 decks)

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