PSYC 2320

Midterm I Review sessionMonday, Feb 1 2010

Question 1

What is Monoism?

What is Dualism?

Mind and brain (body and soul) are not different things

Mind and brain are fundamentally different

Question 2

Name the different parts of the neuron

Dendrites

Cell body

Axon

Question 3

What is sensation?

What is perception?

Sensation is acquiring information about the outside world

Perception is interpreting information about the outside world

Question 4

Imagine a sound wave that causes high magnitude of displacement at the apex end of the basilar membrane.

How would you perceive this sound?

A loud, low pitched tone

Question 5

A 100 Hz test-tone played at 50 dB would have a SPL of ___ dB60

Question 6

After listening to a 5000 Hz tone you would expect to experience hearing loss for _______ after exposure

4 days

Question 7

What are four cues you could use for localizing sound?

Arrival time

Phase lag

Head related transfer function

Room Echoes

Question 8

What is a pure tone?

Sounds with only one frequency

Question 9

What is Acoustic-phonetic invariance?

Phonemes should match one and only one pattern in the spectrograms

Is it true?

NO!

Question 10

What is the difference between categorical perception and cross-modal integration?

Categorical perception is a phenomenon in which the brain assigns a stimulus into one or another category but never into an intermediate category

Cross-modal integration is the integration of two or more different sensory inputs

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