Exam 10: Basic Auditory Functions

A sound's frequency (a physical phenomenon) is related to the psychological phenomenon of:

The two components of the interaural time difference are:

Chronic noise has been found to affect a person's: (p. 293)

Which of these statements about loudness perception is NOT true?

In making judgments about the distances that sounds are from us, we:

In a complex tone comprised of 300 Hz, 600 Hz, and 900 Hz, which frequency contributes the greatest amplitude?

Localizing an object based on sound along the horizontal plane would mean to determine:

While interaural time differences are encoded in the __________________, interaural intensity differences are encoded in the __________________. (p. 284)

Psychologists measure loudness using:

Research on auditory localization indicates that:

The process of sending out an auditory signal and gathering information about the environment from the returning signal is called:

When the ratios of two or more distinct tones are simple fractions, the combination is a __________________ and is judged to be __________________.

The orientation of the feathers on a barn owl's face into the shape of a parabolic reflector allow it to:

In a complex tone comprised of 200 Hz, 400 Hz, 600 Hz, and 800 Hz, which frequency is the fundamental frequency?

Which of the following structures does NOT play an important role in auditory localization?

The loudest tones to us are those with frequencies:

The auditory system would benefit greatest from using the onset difference when:

As you increase the intensity of a sound, you increase:

Musicians mark softest sounds as __________________ and loudest sounds as __________________.

The reason that humans cannot hear the sounds that bats emit is because: