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Sensation and Perception

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What do you call the type of hearing loss that is often caused by heredity, aging, and exposure to loud noise?...

Sensorineural hearing loss

Auditory impairment

Conduction hearing loss

Nerve deafness

When examining ethical concerns within psychological experiments involving deception, which procedure must researchers implement post-experiment?...

Random assignment

Anonymity guarantee

Debriefing

Voluntary participation

What innovative research design could effectively explore the influence of amplitude on perceived loudness in human auditory processes?...

Monitoring heart rate during exposure to high-intensity noises.

Using a series of tones with varying amplitudes and asking participants to rate their perceived loudness.

Analyzing brain waves while individuals perform physical activities.

Investigating the correlation between taste sensitivity and sound intensity.

What is the term for distinguishing a sound's intensity and pitch in auditory perception?...

Frequency theory

Place theory

Auditory localization

Cochlear filtering

What could you infer if an audiogram shows normal hearing for low-frequency sounds but significant loss for high-frequency sounds?...

Barotrauma from changes in air pressure

Temporary threshold shift due to acute exposure to loud noise

Otitis media (middle ear infection)

Age-related hearing loss (presbycusis)

Which process allows us to locate sounds based on differences in when they reach each ear?...

Auditory localization

Place theory

Pitch perception

Frequency theory

What objection can be made against the duplex theory's explanation for auditory location using intensity differences ?...

It doesn't account for sounds directly in front or behind.

It inadequately explains frequency discrimination.

The theory neglects the role of auditory nerve.

It fails to explain binaural beats perception.

Which argument undermines Frequency Theory's explanation of how we distinguish pitch?...

It does not explain how we perceive loudness.

It fails to account for sounds above 1000Hz, as neurons cannot fire fast enough to match these frequencies.

It fails to consider the role of the cochlea in hearing.

It doesn't explain sound localization.

What statistical measure would be most appropriate when a researcher aims to express the strength and directionality of the relationship between age-related hearing decline and years spent working in noisy environments?...

Pearson correlation coefficient

Standard deviation

Mean difference

T-test

Which theory explains why we can hear different pitches or tones because different sound waves trigger activity at various places along the cochlea's basilar membrane?...

Volley principle

Place theory

Signal detection theory

Frequency theory