AP Psych Sound

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Pitch

high frequency high pitch, vice versa

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Volume

High amplitude high volume, vice versa

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Conduction hearing loss

problems getting sound waves to cochlea

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Sensorineural hearing loss

deafness due to damaged auditory receptors

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Place theory

Pitch heard due to where cochlea’s membrane is stimulated.

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Frequency theory

Rate of nerve impulses traveling along auditory nerve that matches the frequency of a tone thus we can sense its path

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Duplicity theory

Pitch due to place along cochlea where transduction is, and the rate of firing. Sterophonic/two ears

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Sound localization

Sounds from different directions are not identical