Reference no: EM13340588

1. Which of the patients below most likely has presbycusis?

A. George, who has difficulty hearing his grandchildren playing at his 70th birthday party.

B. Kyle, a young child who experiences severe pain in his left ear.

C. Ryan, who has had difficulty hearing ever since his bad fall while waterskiing.

D. Cameron, who reports a slight but constant ringing in his ears.

2. Compared to an adult’s eye, in an infant’s eye:

A. the cones are more densely packed and not an optimal shape.

B. the cones are less densely packed and not an optimal shape.

C. the cones are more densely packed but an optimal shape.

D. the cones are less densely packed but an optimal shape.

3. Studies investigating the perception of figure-ground relationships in music perception indicate:

A. only one melodic line can be heard as a “figure” at any given time

B. only one melodic line can be heard as the “ground” at any given time

C. even non-musicians are able to perceive multiple “figures” at any given time

D. both A and B

4. The information about how a substance feels within the mouth (e.g., its texture, temperature, pain sensations, etc.) is carried through the:

A. olfactory blub

B. trigeminal nerve

C. olfactory nerve

D. taste receptor cells

5. Which of the following describes the path of information traveling through the spinothalamic system?

A. nerve fibers ? thalamus ? spinal cord ? somatosensory cortex

B. nerve fibers ? spinal cord ? medial lemniscus ? thalamus

C. nerve fibers ? spinal cord ? thalamus ? somatosensory cortex

D. nerve fibers ? medial lemniscus ? spinal cord ? thalamus

6. Stress, rate, and intonation all contribute to the rhythm of speech. Therefore, these aspects make up the __________________ of speech.

A. voicing

B. prosody

C. phonemes

D. formants

7. The findings of Pollack and Pickett indicate that:

A. listeners rarely misperceive words presented in isolation

B. emotions affect a number of different aspects of prosody

C. speakers are quite precise in their pronunciation of words in conversation

D. context aids in the identification of spoken words

8. The sensation of movement or the sensation of static limb position is:

A. vestibular perception

B. kinesthesia

C. haptic perception

D. passive touch.