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Paralinguistic information includes: |
| | A) | semantics |
| | B) | mood |
| | C) | pitch |
| | D) | loudness |
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Laughter may serve to: |
| | A) | communicate the laugher's affective state |
| | B) | generate an affective state in the listener |
| | C) | strengthen social bonds between the laugher and the listener |
| | D) | do all of the above |
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The basic building blocks of speech that form the vocabulary of sounds in a language are called: |
| | A) | phonemes |
| | B) | audio forms |
| | C) | phonograms |
| | D) | acoustic components |
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A spectrogram shows speech's: |
| | A) | frequency, pitch, and intensity |
| | B) | frequency, timbre, and loudness |
| | C) | pitch, loudness, and time |
| | D) | frequency, intensity, and time |
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An example of auditory constancy is: |
| | A) | hearing the same message despite the words being spoken by males and females |
| | B) | hearing the same melody at different distances from a musical instrument |
| | C) | hearing the loudness of a sound diminish with distance from the source |
| | D) | all of the above are examples of auditory constancy |
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The area of the brain most involved in processing the meaning of speech is: |
| | A) | the left auditory cortex |
| | B) | the right auditory cortex |
| | C) | the left Wernicke's region |
| | D) | the right Wernicke's region |
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Repeatedly hearing the syllable /d/ results in hearing an ambiguous syllable, partly resembling /t/ and partly resembling /d/, as: |
| | A) | /t/ |
| | B) | /d/ |
| | C) | /b/ |
| | D) | /e/ |
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People can pick out someone from a video (without sound) after they have heard only that person's voice. This is an example of: |
| | A) | auditory face |
| | B) | context |
| | C) | both a and b |
| | D) | neither a nor b |
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The fact that one's perception of a speech sound can be influenced by seeing lip movements is called: |
| | A) | the McGurk effect |
| | B) | the cocktail party effect |
| | C) | binaural unmasking |
| | D) | phonagnosia |
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We can hear the individual words in normal speech by: |
| | A) | picking up short gaps between the words |
| | B) | picking up brief changes in frequency between the words |
| | C) | both a and b |
| | D) | neither a nor b |
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Difficulty in discriminating different phonemes is associated with: |
| | A) | deficits in hearing sensitivity for pure tones |
| | B) | language-based learning difficulties |
| | C) | phonagnosia |
| | D) | Wernike's aphasia |
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Who would be LEAST likely to use motherese? |
| | A) | someone talking to an adolescent |
| | B) | someone talking to a child |
| | C) | someone talking to an infant |
| | D) | someone talking to a pet |
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The main source of information we use to identify a melody is: |
| | A) | the absolute size of the pitch interval between notes |
| | B) | the relative size of the pitch interval between notes |
| | C) | the overall pitch contour of the melody |
| | D) | the timbre of the instrument playing the melody |
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People with absolute pitch, compared to people without it: |
| | A) | have lower thresholds for frequencies across the audible range |
| | B) | are poorer at discriminating different frequencies |
| | C) | are poorer at recognizing melodies |
| | D) | are more disturbed by melodies in an unusual key |
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Extensive musical training can result in: |
| | A) | enlarged tonotopic areas in the auditory cortex |
| | B) | enlarged regions in the motor cortex |
| | C) | both a and b |
| | D) | neither a nor b |
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Pitch _____ is the ability to tell that middle C and C one octave lower are both C; pitch _____ is the ability to tell that middle C is lower than C one octave lower. |
| | A) | constancy; contour |
| | B) | contour; constancy |
| | C) | height; chroma |
| | D) | chroma; height |
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The rhythm of a piece of music refers to: |
| | A) | tempo |
| | B) | beat |
| | C) | meter |
| | D) | all of the above |
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When someone plays a wrong note in a piece of music, which brain region shows the most activation? |
| | A) | auditory cortex |
| | B) | Wernicke's area |
| | C) | medial temporal area |
| | D) | paralimbic area |
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