Describe the movement of the basilar membrane in response to sounds of different frequencies
What will be an ideal response?
Answer: The basilar membrane shows distortion as sound waves are transmitted through the oval window by the stapes. High-frequency tones produce a maximal distortion in the basilar membrane near the oval window. Low-frequency tones produce distortion farther away from the oval window.
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What will be an ideal response?
Santana steps on a tack and jerks her foot back. This pain will
a. raise her endorphin levels. b. lower her endorphin levels. c. cause depolarization of her pain receptors. d. cause a repolarization of her pain receptors.
"Acts that are reinforced tend to be repeated" is the basic principle behind __________ learning
a. respondent b. reflexive c. instrumental d. Pavlovian
When Rip Van Winkle returns to his native village, after 20 years of sleeping in the mountains, he goes immediately to the location of his former house and asks for his wife and children by name. The kind of memory that he is exhibiting is _______
a. procedural memory b. semantic memory c. episodic memory d. eidetic memory