Cognitive Psychology - Lecture 4 Quiz

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1. What is NOT TRUE?

  • natural sounds often consist of a fundamental frequency
  • Sound is not visualised using Rubens' tube
  • All sound waves can be described as a combination of sine waves
  • Most sounds encountered in nature are more complex than pure tones
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2. What is NOT a characteristic of amplitude?

  • Hard strikes cause hard vibrations and higher amplitudes
  • Related to the number of cycles per second
  • Related to the perception of loudness
  • Related to the size of the variation in air pressure

3. The missing fundamental illusion DOES NOT state what:

  • the place and timing of stimulation affects our perception of pitch
  • perception of pitch could be a top-down process
  • we continue to perceive pitch with the missing fundamental frequency
  • pitch isnt simply detected in the cochlea

4. Which structure is located in the inner ear?

  • Cochlea
  • Pinnae
  • Tympanic membrane
  • Malleus

5. What enables us to discriminate loudness across a range of sound levels?

  • Auditory Transduction utilising highly specialised and sensitive har cells
  • The efficiency of the primary auditory cortex (A1)
  • The fact that some fibres have high spontaneous rates and saturate rapidly and some have low spontaneous rates and saturate slowly
  • The ossicle bones located in the middle ear

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