chp 10

Question 1

Which theoretical framework for how human hearing works concludes that each place in the cochlea corresponds to the perception of a given frequency?

Answer 1

Place Theory of Hearing

Question 2

In which theory of hearing is it the timing of the firing of nerve impulses that carries information about the perceived pitch to the brain?

Answer 2

Temporal Theory of Hearing

Question 3

Which type of hearing loss involves problems with the ossicles?

Answer 3

conductive loss

Question 4

Which type of hearing loss is generally caused by damage to the cochlea or the auditory nerve?

Answer 4

Sensorineural loss

Question 5

Which type of hearing loss is simply related to the aging process and results from the cumulative effects of many years of use?

Answer 5

presbycusis

Question 6

Which of the following refers to the phenomenon of perceiving the presence of a fundamental frequency, even when it is not present and, instead, only frequencies are present that would be considered harmonics if the fundamental were actually there?

Answer 6

missing fundamental

Question 7

The range of frequencies where over which two component frequencies are close enough so that we hear a single sound is called a

Answer 7

critical Band

Question 8

What is dissonance?

Answer 8

The musical term that is used to describe musical notes that have harmonics close enough to fall in the roughness regime but not close enough to form beats.

Question 9

What occurs when two notes are sufficiently close together in frequencies so that, as a result, we perceive one note which varies in loudness?

Answer 9

beats