If someone told you about a particular sound's decibel level, they would be telling you about its
amplitude
What you see may affect what you hear" is called the
McGurk effect
The MEL scale is used to measure
pitch
The basis for hearing is the effect of a ________ on the ___________.
traveling wave, basilar membrane
Suppose that a researcher records electrical impulses from a fiber in the auditory nerve and plots a frequency tuning curve.
Individual tuning curves; Auditory neurons specific with particular
Vision is to presbyopia as audition is to
presbycusis
The psychological reaction to the frequency of sound is
pitch
If you were to remove all harmonics from a tone you would be left with a
fundamental
Which of the following perceptual skills depend most on binaural cues?
location
_________ is in the left frontal lobe and directs the muscles necessary for speech.
Broca's area
The basic building blocks of speech that form the vocabulary of sounds in a language are called
phonemes
A combination of two or more notes that is judged to be pleasant is called
consonance
Which of the following would you expect to find on a speech spectrogram?
formants
When there are two 1000Hz tones of equal amplitude that are 180 degrees out of phase,
you hear nothing
The fact that your voice sounds different on tape to you, but not to others is due to
bone conduction
Which of the visual phenomena is most similar to the auditory phenomenon of phonetic restoration?
Illusory contours
How many morphemes does the word "dogs" have?
two
Wernicke's area is important in
involving language/speech comprehension
The unit of loudness, the sone, is defined as the loudness of a ____Hz tone, at __dB.
1000, 40
A shift in frequency emitted by a moving sound source is called
Doppler shift
Touch acuity varies with
location; where they are on your body
Surfaces such as steel and cement feel cold to the touch because
calories, they tell you temperature
Name three touch receptors
Murkle, Meissner, and Pacianian
The sense of our limb position is called
kinesthesia
The nerve endings for hairs are called
basket cells
The most common skin receptors are
free nerve endings (FNEs)
Glabrous skin refers to skin that is
hairless skin
The topographical representation of the skin in the sensory cortex is called the
homunculus
A specific area on the skin that can affect the firing pattern of a specific neuron in the sensory cortex is called the
receptive field
You are in a highly stressed state and you are injured but you feel very little pain. You are experiencing
stress-induced analgesia
The sense of smell is also known as:
olfaction or olfactory
Animal odors that appear to be important in mate identification and selection are called
pheromones
Henning's smell prism for categorizing odors:
six different types of odors spicy, resinous, fragrant, putrid, ethereal, and burned
Odors that smell alike appear to have
nothing in common
Which of the following statements is true of olfactory receptor cells?
Life of: 4-12 weeks, React too many different odors; regenerate; shape pattern theory: Molecule shapes fit shapes of olfactory receptors
Which theory proposes that cognitive factors influence pain perception?
gate-control theory
It is widely believed that there are four basic taste qualities
sweet, bitter, salt, and sour
The _______ are the bumps on the tongue that contain the ________ that house the receptor cells responsible for taste.
Papillae, taste buds
_______ is a very powerful chemical stimulus
Capsaicin
To make lemon juice taste sweet, you could first consume
Miracle Fruit
Adding sugar to a cup of coffee to reduce its bitterness is
taste suppression
Wine tasters should really be called
wine smellers
With increased concentration the taste of saccharin shifts from sweet to
bitter
We are most sensitive to _____ and least sensitive to ______.
bitter, sweet
Adaptation to caffeine (bitter) can cause water to taste
sweet
The cat and the chicken are indifferent to stimuli that taste _____ to humans.
sweet
The human infant shows a reliable preference for salt at __ months.
4
A particular taste paired with pain or nausea may produce the phenomenon called
taste aversion
The adequate stimulus for smell must be
volatile, water-soluble, and lipid soluble
Olfactory receptors usually react to
number of different odors
The lowest frequency of a complex sound wave is called the __________. If you remove all of the harmonics you will have left the __________.
fundamental, fundamental
___________ depends mostly on binaural cues.
Location
The sense of smell is called _______, which is not a very accurate name.
olfaction
____ are called the "common chemical sense" and seem to respond to everything.
FNEs