Module 1.6C

Question 1

Audition

Answer 1

The sense or act of hearing.

Question 2

Frequency

Answer 2

The number of complete wavelenghts that pass a point in a given time.

Question 3

Pitch

Answer 3

A tone’s experienced highness or lowness; depeonds on frequency.

Question 4

Middle Ear

Answer 4

The chamber between the eardrum and the cochlea containing three tiny bones that concenrate the vibrations of the eardrum on the cochlea’s oval window.

Question 5

Cochlea

Answer 5

A coiled, bony, fluid-filled tbe n the inner ear; sound waves traveling through the cochlear fluid trigger nerve impulses.

Question 6

Inner Ear

Answer 6

The innermost part of the ear, containing the cochlea, semicircular canals, and vestibular sacs.

Question 7

Sensorineural Hearing Loss

Answer 7

The most common form of hearing loss, caused by damage to the cochlea’s recpeotr cells or to the auditory nerve; also called nerve deafness.

Question 8

Cochlear Implant

Answer 8

A device for converting sounds into electrical signals and stimulating the auditory nerve through electrodes threated into the cochlea.

Question 9

Place Theory

Answer 9

In hearing, the theory that links the pitch we hear with the place where the cochlea’s membrane is stimulated.

Question 10

Frequency Theory

Answer 10

In hearing, the theory that the rate of nerve impulses traveling up the auditory nerve matches the fequency of a tone, thus enabling us to sense its pitch.