PSYC 304 Week 7 Quiz Answer

PSYC 304 Week 7 Quiz Answer

Question 1 of 15 1.0 Points Which of the following can be considered to be an articulator?

• a sound spectrogram

• a running spectral display

• the soft palate

• an articulation agreement

Answer Key: C

Question 2 of 15 1.0 Points The problem of variability from the way different people speak can be demonstrated by

• the pitch differences in different people's voices

• the different accents of different speakers

• the speed at which the speaker talks

• all of the above

Answer Key: D

Question 3 of 15 1.0 Points The McGurk effect is most similar to which of the following performers?

• ventriloquists

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• hockey players

• ballet dancers

• gymnasts

Answer Key: A

Question 4 of 15 1.0 Points Link et al. (2003) studied the perceived meaning of listeners' to the phrase "Let's do lunch sometime," based on the speaker's inflection and emotional state. These are examples of

• indexical characteristics

• segmentation

• lip reading effects

• speech shadowing techniques

Answer Key: A

Question 5 of 15 1.0 Points Japanese children at the age of _____ can tell the difference between the /r/ sound and the /l/ sound just as well as Americans.

• 6 months old

• 1 year old

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• 2 years old

• 5 years old

Answer Key: A

Question 6 of 15 1.0 Points Damage to Broca's area in the frontal lobe results in difficulty

• in speaking

• in understanding speech

• in lip reading

• in determining phonetic boundaries

Answer Key: A

Question 7 of 15 1.0 Points Listening to someone speak a foreign language is used as an example of

• the correspondence problem

• the segmentation problem

• the formant transition effect

• acoustic signaling

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Answer Key: B

Question 8 of 15 1.0 Points

Which of the following is not a function of the skin:

• Keeping out harmful chemicals, pathogens, and foreign objects

• Protecting us from UV rays

• Keeping moisture inside the body and providing insulation against the cold

• Providing pain, pressure, and temperature detection through the activation of various receptors

Answer Key: B

Question 9 of 15 1.0 Points The Meissner corpuscle is associated with

• sensing vibrations

• sensing fine texture

• controlling handgrip

• sensing fine details

Answer Key: C

Question 10 of 15 1.0 Points The mapping of the body on the somatosensory cortex can be represented as the