Title ABC/123 Version X 1 Speech Perception Worksheet PSY/345 Version 2 1 University of Phoenix MaterialSpeech Perception Worksheet Complete the following table. Components Description/Function Acoustic signal Articulators Formants Sound spectrogram Formant transitions Phonemes Categorical perception McGurk effect Speech segmentation Transitional probabilities Indexical characteristics Broca’s aphasia Wernicke’s aphasia Dual-stream model of speech perception Motor theory of speech perception Copyright © XXXX by University of Phoenix. All rights reserved. Copyright © 2014 by University of Phoenix. All rights reserved. DQ 5 CH. 14 1. What objects are involved in identifying objects by haptic exploration? 2. What are some of the physiological processes involved in recognizing objects by touch? 3. Describe the three types of pain. 4. What is the gate control mode? Be sure to understand the roles of nociceptors, mechanoreceptors, and central control. CH. 15 1. What are the main structures in the olfactory system past the olfactory bulb? 2. What is flavor perception? Describe how taste and olfaction meet in the mouth and nose then later in the nervous system. 3. What is the Proust Effect? Is there any evidence for it? 4. How has formation of the representation of odor objects in the cortex been described as being caused by experience? How is this similar to the process of forming memories? DQ 4 CH. 11 1. What is the connection between hair cell damage and hearing loss? Exposure to occupational or leisure noise and hearing loss? 2. Describe the procedures for measuring auditory thresholds in infants. How does the infant’s audibility curve compare to the adult curve? CH. 12 1. What is the auditory scene analysis, and why is it a “problem” for the auditory system? 2. What is the difference between the rhythmic pattern and metrical structure? 3. Describe the ways the vision dominates hearing, hearing dominates vision, and how sounds provides information that influences what we see. CH. 13 1. How does experience-dependent plasticity contribute to a child’s development of the ability to perceive phonemes during the first year of life? 2. What is the evidence that meaning can influence word perception? 3. What mechanism helps us perceive breaks between words? 4. How do speaker characteristics influence speech perception? ...

1. Title
ABC/123 Version X
1
Speech Perception Worksheet
PSY/345 Version 2
1
University of Phoenix MaterialSpeech Perception Worksheet
Complete the following table.
Components
Description/Function
Acoustic signal
Articulators
Formants
Sound spectrogram
Formant transitions
Phonemes
Categorical perception
McGurk effect
Speech segmentation
Transitional probabilities

2. Indexical characteristics
Broca’s aphasia
Wernicke’s aphasia
Dual-stream model of speech perception
Motor theory of speech perception
Copyright © XXXX by University of Phoenix. All rights
reserved.
Copyright © 2014 by University of Phoenix. All rights reserved.
DQ 5
CH. 14
1. What objects are involved in identifying objects by haptic
exploration?
2. What are some of the physiological processes involved in
recognizing objects by touch?
3. Describe the three types of pain.
4. What is the gate control mode? Be sure to understand the
roles of nociceptors, mechanoreceptors, and central control.
CH. 15
1. What are the main structures in the olfactory system past the
olfactory bulb?
2. What is flavor perception? Describe how taste and olfaction
meet in the mouth and nose then later in the nervous system.
3. What is the Proust Effect? Is there any evidence for it?
4. How has formation of the representation of odor objects in
the cortex been described as being caused by experience? How
is this similar to the process of forming memories?

3. DQ 4
CH. 11
1. What is the connection between hair cell damage and hearing
loss? Exposure to occupational or leisure noise and hearing
loss?
2. Describe the procedures for measuring auditory thresholds in
infants. How does the infant’s audibility curve compare to the
adult curve?
CH. 12
1. What is the auditory scene analysis, and why is it a
“problem” for the auditory system?
2. What is the difference between the rhythmic pattern and
metrical structure?
3. Describe the ways the vision dominates hearing, hearing
dominates vision, and how sounds provides information that
influences what we see.
CH. 13
1. How does experience-dependent plasticity contribute to a
child’s development of the ability to perceive phonemes during
the first year of life?
2. What is the evidence that meaning can influence word
perception?
3. What mechanism helps us perceive breaks between words?
4. How do speaker characteristics influence speech perception?