Modules 18 and 19

Question 1

Act or sense of hearing

Answer 1

Audition

Question 2

Determines loudness

Answer 2

Amplitude

Question 3

Measured in hertz and determines pitch

Answer 3

Frequency

Question 4

A tone’s experienced highness or lowness, depends on frequency

Answer 4

Pitch

Question 5

Measured in decibels

Answer 5

Sound Intensity

Question 6

Chamber between eardrum and cochlea constraining 3 tiny bones that concentrate vibrations of the eardrum on the cochlea’s oval window

Answer 6

Middle ear

Question 7

Coiled, bony, fluid-filled tube in the inner ear; sound waves traveling through the cochlear fluid trigger nerve impulses

Answer 7

Cochlea

Question 8

Innermost part of ear, containing the cochlea, semicircular canals, and vestibular sacs

Answer 8

Inner ear

Question 9

Main mechanical element within cochlea of inner ear

Answer 9

Basilar Membrane

Question 10

Primary sensory receptor cells within the inner ear

Answer 10

Hair Cells

Question 11

Relays neural activity to CNS

Answer 11

Auditory Nerve

Question 12

Part of temporal love that processes auditory information

Answer 12

Auditory Cortex

Question 13

Nociceptors

Answer 13

Sensory receptors

Question 14

The most common form of hearing loss, caused by damage to cochlea’s receptor cells or auditory information

Answer 14

Sensorineural hearing loss (nerve deafness)

Question 15

Caused by damage to the mechanical system that conducts sounds waves to the cochlea

Answer 15

Conduction hearing loss

Question 16

Device that converts sounds into electrical signals and stimulating the auditory nerve through electrodes threaded into the cochlea

Answer 16

Cochlear implant

Question 17

Links the pitch we hear with the place where the cochlea’s membrane is stimulated

Answer 17

Place Theory (place coding)

Question 18

The rate of nerve impulses traveling up the auditory nerve matched the frequency of a tone, thus enabling us to sense its pitch

Answer 18

Frequency Theory (temporal coding)

Question 19

The spinal cord contains a neurological “gate” that blocks pain signals or allows them to pass on to the brain

Answer 19

Gate-control Theory

Question 20

Pain signals traveling up small nerve fibers (open or close)

Answer 20

Gate Opens

Question 21

Large fibers or information coming from the brain (open or close)

Answer 21

Gate Closes

Question 22

Phantom sound of ringing ears

Answer 22

Tinnitus

Question 23

People are likely to do whatever they see as being the norm

Answer 23

Social Influence Theory

Question 24

When an auditory component of one sound is paired with a visual component, leading to the perception of a third sound

Answer 24

McGurk Effect

Question 25

Idea that many features of cognition are shaped by the state and capacities of an organism

Answer 25

Embodied Cognition

Question 26

Where a person suggests to another that certain perceptions, feelings, thoughts, or behavior will spontaneously occur

Answer 26

Hypnosis

Question 27

Split in consciousness, allows some thoughts and behaviors to occur simultaneously with others

Answer 27

Dissociation

Question 28

Suggestion made during hypnosis to be carried out after the subject is no longer hypnotized

Answer 28

Posthypnotic Suggestion

Question 29

Gustation

Answer 29

Sense of taste

Question 30

Olfaction

Answer 30

Sense of smell

Question 31

Our movement sense, for sensing the position and movement of individual body parts

Answer 31

Kinesthesia

Question 32

Our balance sense, sense of body movement and position that enables our sense of balance

Answer 32

Vestibular Sense

Question 33

The principle that one sense can influence another

Answer 33

Sensory Interaction

Question 34

The influence of bodily sensations and gestures on cognitive preferences and judgements

Answer 34

Embodied Cognition

Question 35

Perception can occur apart from sensory input (includes telepathy, clairvoyance, and precognition)

Answer 35

Extrasensory Perception (ESP)

Question 36

Study of paranormal phenomena (ESP and telekinesis)

Answer 36

Parapsychology

Question 37

We pick out objects (figure) standing out against a background (ground)

Answer 37

Figure Ground Perception

Question 38

Do you see a goblet or two faces?

Answer 38

Figure Ground Perception

Question 39

A meaningful pattern/configuration form a "whole" that is more than the sum of its parts

Answer 39

Gestalt

Question 40

Proximity, continuity, and closure

Answer 40

Wholes (Gestalt)

Question 41

Test of depth

Question 42

Test of depth perception, babies seem to develop the ability at crawling age

Answer 42

Visual Cliff

Question 43

Depth cue that depends on the use of two eyes, gives us retinal disparity

Answer 43

Binocular Cues

Question 44

Allows us to see depth

Answer 44

Retinal Disparity

Question 45

Needing only one eye

Answer 45

Monocular Cues

Question 46

When one object appears to block the view of another, we assume that the blocking object is in a position between our eyes and the blocked object

Answer 46

Monocular Cue: Interposition

Question 47

We intuitively know to interpret familiar objects as farther away when they appear smaller

Answer 47

Monocular Cue: Relative Size

Question 48

Flowers in distance seem farther away because the rows converge. Our brain reads this as a sign of distance

Answer 48

Monocular Cue: Linear Perspective and Interposition

Question 49

We tend to perceive the higher part of a scene as farther away

Answer 49

Monocular Cue: Relative Height

Question 50

Ability to see objects as appearing the same even under different lighting, distances, or angles (top-down process)

Answer 50

Perceptual Constancy

Question 51

Snow during day is white, snow during night is still white

Answer 51

Perceptual Constancy

Question 52

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Answer 52

Relative Luminance

Question 53

Ability to adjust to changed sensory input

Answer 53

Perceptual Adaptation

Question 54

After our sensory information is distorted, humans may at first be disoriented but can learn to adjust and function (delayed tv audio or new glasses)

Answer 54

Perceptual Adaptation

Question 55

The length of a sound wave, high and low sounds (pitch)

Answer 55

Frequency

Question 56

Height or intensity of a sound wave, loud and soft (volume)

Answer 56

Amplitude

Question 57

Sound quality or resonance

Answer 57

Complexity

Question 58

The sense or act of hearing

Answer 58

Audition

Question 59

Collects sound and funnels it to the eardrum

Answer 59

Outer Ear

Question 60

Sound waves hit the eardrum and move 3 bones in ways that amplify vibrations. Vibrations are sent to the oval window of the cochlea.

Answer 60

Middle Ear

Question 61

Names of 3 bones in the middle ear

Answer 61

- Hammer - Anvil - Stirrup

Question 62

Waves of fluid move from oval window over the cochlea's "hair" receptor cells and send signals through auditory nerves to temporal lobe

Answer 62

Inner Ear

Question 63

The inner ear contains the:

Answer 63

- Cochlea - Semicircular canals - Vestibular sacs

Question 64

Primary sensory receptor cells within the inner ear

Answer 64

Hair Cells

Question 65

When the middle ear isn't conducting sounds to the cochlea well

Answer 65

Conduction Hearing Loss

Question 66

Hearing loss caused by damage to the mechanical system

Answer 66

Conduction Hearing Loss

Question 67

Most common form of hearing loss

Answer 67

Sensorineural Hearing Loss (nerve deafness)

Question 68

When the receptor cells aren't sending messages through the auditory nerves

Answer 68

Sensorineural Hearing Loss