Formative 1.6-2.1 Set A

Which of the following would most likely cause sensorineural hearing loss?

• Victor works on the flight line of a busy airport where it is extremely loud.
• Daniel uses a cotton swab inside his ear canal to clean his ears daily.
• Raj ruptured his eardrum by putting a stick into his ear canal as an infant.
• Dillon has been diagnosed with Eustachian tube malfunction.

Which of the following BEST describes a subliminal message?

• A subliminal message is one presented while an individual is under hypnosis.
• A subliminal message is below one's absolute threshold for awareness.
• A subliminal message is presented in a manner that is unconsciously pervasive.
• A subliminal message is presented with very soft background music.
• A subliminal message is presented with repetition.

As a toddler, Kalie had very high fevers for several days and lost her sense of hearing. The doctor explained to her parents that the fevers had damaged the cilia in her cochlea.

• Kalie has conduction hearing loss that can be treated with a hearing aid.
• Kalie has sensorineural hearing loss that can be treated with an amplification device.
• Kalie has conduction hearing loss that can be treated with a cochlear implant.
• Kalie has sensorineural hearing loss that can be treated with a cochlear implant.

Who emphasized that in order for a person to detect a difference between two stimuli it was the percentage change that mattered , not the amount?

• Erik Erikson
• Ernst Weber
• William James
• David Hubel

Xavier finds the smell of a new restaurant to be very strong at first, but after spending time eating in the restaurant he no longer notices the smell. The process of getting used to a sensory experience is referred to as

• sensory adaptation
• absolute threshold
• difference threshold
• perception

Which of the following is MOST true about human sensation?

• Humans can sense all existing colors and sounds.
• If wer are consciously aware of sensing something, then our sensory receptors did not pick it up.
• We can be affected by stimuli that we are unaware of having sensed.
• We sense and transduce all existing colors and sounds, but our brain can only process a narrow range.
• Sensation is more affected by culture and experience than perception is.

Paul has been diagnosed with synesthesia, a rare perceptual phenomenon. Which of the following would Paul most likely experience?

• Paul stares at a red image for thirty seconds and then looks at a blank, white screen and sees the image in green.
• Paul gets a sour taste in his mouth when he hears classical music on the radio.
• Paul remembers how to drive from his house to school without consciously thinking about the directions.
• Paul puts forth little effort on his psychology group project and allows his peers to do most of the work.

Which of the following is the CORRECT sequence of structures activated in the ear when an individual hears a sound?

• Auditory canal, eardrum, basilar membrane, anvil.
• Eardrum, anvil, cochlea, auditory nerve.
• Eardrum , anvil, hammer, auditory nerve, cochlea
• Eardrum, hair cells, anvil, auditory

The process by which the senses collect energy from the environment and turn it into information the brain can interpret is called

• transduction
• synesthesia
• Weber's Law.
• bottom-up processing.

The process by which the senses collect energy from the environment and turn it into information the brain can interpret is called

• transduction
• synesthesia
• Weber's Law.
• bottom-up processing.