Psychoacoustics MCQs
Psychoacoustics MCQs
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1: What does A-weighting approximate?
A. 40 phon contour
B. The average noise level
C. The best way to reduce noise annoyance
D. 45 decibels
2: What is the ability to identify or re-create a given musical note without the benefit of an external reference called?
A. Concentration
B. Brightness
C. Absolute pitch
D. Ambidexterity
3: Which of the following is NOT true of the absolute threshold?
A. The manner of presentation of the sound does not matter.
B. The minimum detectable level of a sound in the absence of other external sounds.
C. The minimum detectable level of a sound in the presence of other external sounds.
D. The method of determining detectability does not matter.
4: What is the absolute threshold?
A. The minimum detectable level of a sound in the presence of other external sounds.
B. The minimum detectable level of a sound in the absence to an other external sounds.
C. There is no such thing as an absolute threshold.
D. The maximum detectable level of a sound in the presence of other external sounds.
5: What is adaptation?
A. The decline in the frequency of firing of a neuron, particularly of a receptor, under conditions of varying stimulation.
B. The increase in the frequency of firing of a neuron, particularly of a receptor, under conditions of constant stimulation.
C. The decline in the frequency of firing of a neuron, particularly of a receptor, under conditions of constant stimulation.
D. The increase in the frequency of firing of a neuron, particularly of a receptor, under conditions of varying stimulation.
6: What is the Adaptive Procedure?
A. A method of testing that was created in 1711.
B. A method of ballet that was created in 1681.
C. A method of testing similar to tracking that involves incrimental steps until some threshold is passed.
D. A method of testing that involves incrimental steps until some threshold is not passed.
7: When using the adaptive procedure to test someone's hearing, what is the threshold that is being passed?
A. 10 dB
B. 15 dB
C. 5 dB
D. The person's hearing threshold
8: Which of the following is not true about afferent nerves?
A. Carry nerve impulses from the central nervous system to the brain.
B. Are also called motor nerves.
C. Carry nerve impulses from receptors or sense organs towards the central nervous system.
D. Carry nerve impulses from the central nervous system to the effectors.
9: What is an agonist?
A. A cell that responds to a chemical stimulus.
B. A chemical that inhibits the binding of another chemical to a receptor.
C. A chemical that binds to a receptor of a cell and triggers a response by that cell.
D. A receptor that binds to a chemical agonist.
10: What is the name of the model?
A. Bose–Einstein model
B. AHAAH Model
C. Human ear model
D. Calorie model
11: What does an antagonist do when binding to a receptor?
A. Provoke a biological response itself
B. Cause side effects
C. Blocks or dampens agonist-mediated responses
D. Do nothing
12: What does Articulation Index measure?
A. The amount of speech that is audible to a patient with a specific hearing loss.
B. The range of sound a patient can hear.
C. The degree of hearing loss for a patient.
D. The clarity of speech a patient can understand.
13: Which of the following is true about an audiogram?
A. It is a graph showing relative threshold for pure tones as a function of frequency.
B. It is a graph showing hearing loss in decibels as a function of frequency.
C. It is a graph showing absolute threshold for pure tones as a function of frequency.
D. It is a graph showing absolute threshold for complex tones as a function of frequency.
14: What is an audiogram?
A. A graph showing absolute threshold for complex tones as a function of frequency
B. A graph showing absolute threshold for pure tones as a function of frequency
C. A graph showing the loudness of pure tones as a function of frequency
D. A graph showing relative threshold for pure tones as a function of frequency
15: What is the auditory cortex responsible for?
A. Creating auditory information
B. Storing auditory information
C. Interpreting auditory information
D. Processing auditory information
16: What causes auditory fatigue?
A. Exposure to sound
B. Exposure to light
C. Exposure to air
D. Exposure to water
17: What is auditory fatigue?
A. A temporary increase in hearing after exposure to sound.
B. The inability to hear sound.
C. A permanent loss of hearing after exposure to sound.
D. A temporary loss of hearing after exposure to sound.
18: What is auditory looming?
A. The detection of approaching objects via sound.
B. The study of how sound affects emotions
C. The practice of learning through listening
D. The exposure of sound waves to a listener
19: What is the definition of auditory looming?
A. The study of hearing
B. The study of sound
C. The study of the ear
D. The detection of appaoching objects via sound.
20: What is the process by which the human auditory system organizes sound into perceptually meaningful elements?
A. Aural Scene Analysis
B. Visual Scene Analysis
C. Auditory Scene Analysis
D. Tactile Scene Analysis
21: What is Auditory Stream Segregation?
A. The grouping of dissimilar sounds together.
B. The perception of sound as a whole
C. The perceptual grouping of sounds to form coherent representations of objects in the acoustic scene.
D. The grouping of similar sounds together
22: What is the cocktail party effect?
A. The cocktail party effect is an example of auditory attention.
B. The cocktail party effect is an example of auditory isolating.
C. The cocktail party effect is an example of auditory streaming.
D. The cocktail party effect is an example of auditory discrimination.
23: What does B-weighting approximate?
A. The 40 phon contour
B. The 50 phon contour
C. The 120 phon contour
D. The 70 phon contour
24: What is backward masking?
A. Spatial masking of sounds that occur in the same location
B. Temporal masking of quiet sounds that occur moments before a louder sound
C. Temporal masking of loud sounds that occur moments before a quieter sound
D. Spatial masking of sounds that occur in different locations
25: What does temporal masking of quiet sounds refer to?
A. Forward Masking
B. Temporal Masking
C. Backward Masking
D. Masking
26: What is the main function of the Basal Ganglia?
A. Coordinating movement
B. Processing visual information
C. Storing long-term memories
D. Regulating heart rate
27: What is the basilar membrane?
A. A membrane inside the cochlea that vibrates in response to sound
B. A membrane outside the cochlea that vibrates in response to sound
C. A membrane inside the cochlea that does not vibrate in response to sound
D. A membrane outside the cochlea that doesn't vibrate in response to sound
28: For which discovery was Bekesy awarded the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine?
A. Function of the cochlea in the mammalian hearing organ
B. Polio vaccine
C. Research on the human brain
D. Discovery of penicillin
29: What was Bekesy awarded the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for?
A. His research on the function of the cochlea in the mammalian hearing organ
B. His research on the function of the brain in the mammalian nervous system
C. His research on the function of the heart in the mammalian circulatory system
D. His research on the function of the lungs in the mammalian respiratory system
30: What is the name of the psychologist who developed a theory of aesthetics based on complexity?
A. Berlyne, Daniel
B. Carl Jung
C. Jean Paul Sartre
D. Sigmund Freud
31: What did Berlyne develop a theory of?
A. Thermodynamics
B. Quantum Mechanics
C. Aesthetics
D. Hydrodynamics
32: What are binaural beats?
A. Apparent sounds
B. Brain
C. Physical stimuli
D. Auditory processing artifacts
33: Binaural masking differences is the difference in threshold of the signal for the case where:
A. The signal and masker have the same level relationship but different phase relationships at the two ears.
B. The signal and masker have different phase and level relationships at the two ears.
C. The signal and masker have the same phase relationship but different level relationships at the two ears.
D. The signal and masker have the same phase and level relationships at the two ears.
34: What is Binaural sluggishness?
A. A type of music
B. A painting technique
C. It is a dance move
D. The binarual system is sloq in adapting to changes in the interaural parameters to which it is sensitive.
35: Which statement best describes blind sight?
A. People who are perceptually blind in a certain area of their visual field can see perfectly in other areas.
B. People who are perceptually blind in a certain area of their visual field can see perfectly in that area.
C. People who are perceptually blind in a certain area of their visual field demonstrate some response to visual stimuli.
36: What does the brain stem do?
A. Houses the thalamus and hypothalamus
B. Contains the cerebellum
C. Is the part of the brain responsible for language and reasoning
D. Provides the main motor and sensory innervation to the face and neck
37: What is Broca's Area?
A. A region of the brain with functions linked to vision
B. A region of the brain with functions linked to memory
C. A region of the brain with functions linked to hearing
D. A region of the brain with functions linked to speech production
38: What functions are linked to Broca's Area?
A. Emotion
B. Motor control
C. Speech production
D. Speech recognition
39: What does C-weighting approximate?
A. Decibels
B. A-weighting
C. Sones
D. 100 phon contour
40: Who wrote "Hearing: It's Psychology and Physiology"?
A. Sigmund Freud
B. Davis, Hallowell
C. John B. Watson
D. William James
41: Which of the following is true of Davis, Hallowell?
A. He was the first person to write about the basilar membrane.
B. He damaged his hearing during hearing tests in WWII.
C. He was born in 1937.
D. He was a ballerina.
42: What is delayed auditory feedback?
A. The original acoustic speech signal is artificially modified and then fed back via headphones
B. It is a technique to help improve memory
C. It is a technique to help reduce stuttering
D. It is a technique to help improve public speaking
43: What is the OAE?
A. Optimum audition environment
B. Outer ear infection
C. Otoacoustic emission
D. Otitis externa
44: What does OAE stand for?
A. Optic Auditory Evoked
B. Otoacoustic Emissions
C. Olfactory Auditory Evoked
D. Objective Auditory Evoked
45: Who came up with a model that viewed pitch as an ascending spiral?
A. Max Planck
B. Diana Deutsch
C. Ludwig van Beethoven
D. Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
46: Diana Deutsch did a lot of work in which field?
A. World of pitch
B. World of frequency
C. World of sound
D. World of music
47: What does echolocation allow humans to do?
A. See in the dark
B. Communicate with animals
C. Fly
D. Detect objects in their environment by sensing echoes from those objects
48: What is echolocation?
A. The ability of animals to see in the dark
B. The ability of animals to communicate with each other
C. The ability of animals to find their way around in the dark
D. The ability of humans to detect objects in their environment by sensing echoes from those objects.
49: What is the title of the book by Neuhoff?
A. The ecology of psychoacoustics
B. Ecological psychoacoustics
C. Psychoacoustic ecology
D. Ecological literature
50: What is ecological psychoacoustics?
A. The study of how humans process sound in artificial environments
B. The study of how humans process sound in naturalistic environments
C. The study of how humans produce sound in naturalistic environments
D. The study of how animals process sound in naturalistic environments
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