Experiment -Sound Patterns
Answer the questions below after completing the two activities.
Ruler Experiment
Could you hear the ruler tap the table the first time? Yes, I could hear the ruler tap the table the first time.
Did you hear the ruler tap the table better when your ear was on the table? Yes, I could hear the ruler better when my ear was on the table.
Does sound travel through the table? Sound does travel through a wood table.
Do you have to see something to hear the sound it makes? No, you can turn away from a object making a noise and still hear it.
Glass Experiment
When you were above the glass you could hear the stone hit the bottom? Yes, I could hear the stone hit the bottom of the glass.
Did the stones sound louder
Hearing allows us to take in noises from the surrounding environment and gives us a sense of where things are in relation to us. All those little folds on the outside of the ear, called the tonotopic organization, make it so sound waves in the air are directed to the ear canal, where they can be further processed. Once in the ear, the sound waves vibrate the ear drum, which tell the ear exactly what frequency it is sensing. The vibration of the ear drum is not quite enough to send a signal to the brain, so it needs to be amplified, which is where the three tiny bones in the ear come into play. The malleus or hammer, incus or anvil, and stapes or stirrup amplify this sound and send it to the cochlea. The cochlea conducts the sound signal through a fluid with a higher inertia than air, so this is why the signal from the ear drum needs to be amplified. It is much harder to move the fluid than it is to move the air. The cochlea basically takes these physical vibrations and turns them into electrical impulses that can be sent to the brain. This is...
First, one must understand the distinction between hearing and listening. Hearing is simply the reception of sound waves by the ears. This may happen unconsciously, as is usually the case with soft background noise such as the whoosh of air through heating ducts or the distant murmur of an electric clothes dryer. Sometimes hearing is done semi-consciously; for instance, the roar of a piece of construction equipment might momentarily draw one's attention. Conscious hearing, or listening, involves a nearly full degree of mental concentration. A familiar i...
Onomatopoeia: “I could hear my heart thudding. I wondered if August could hear it over there across the room. Boom-boom. Boom-boom” (Kidd 272). When August tells Lily that she finds a box
He wondered if he had gone mad. He covered his ears with both of his hands, but he could still hear the garbled voices that were echoing around the room. He sat for a moment behind his desk and slow his breathing telling himself that he was simply tired.
To start off, Pavlov had to create a soundproof lab. This soundproof lab, built at the Institute of Experimental Medicine in Petrograd, guarded the dogs from any outside noises, external stimulus, and even the experimenters. All of this was done so only the stimulus needed for this project was present allowing the data to be recorded with no actual interaction between the subjects and the researchers. Once Pavlov was officially done setting up his controlled environment, he started his project which was very easy/basic. It is important to remember that food produces a natural/unconditioned response of saliva in the subjects. The next step involved Pavlov trying to find neutral stimulus in the subject, which was not related to food at all. Pavlov used the sound of the metronome as the neutral stimulus.
I follow the noise until I see some light coming from a grated window, not much bigger than a couple hands width. I crawl up on some stones that have been left from some repair work and see through the window easily enough.
If you take a chick for example, its mother will respond to sound instead of sight. When a chick is distressed and is placed in a sound proof container, the mother will not respond. However, when there is a physical barrier but not sound proof, the mother will respond to the chick’s cries. The releaser/sign stimulus is sound in this case. A bee will never see a white flower but instead it will see the “target’, which is the pollen.
As soon as I touched the wall I can hear my family and my friends yelling,
I learned a few things on my two days of being deaf. I used earplugs to help me not hear otherwise it didn’t feel authentic to me. A lot of stuff makes sounds that I never noticed before until I didn’t hear them, like my own footsteps on the tile floor, or my cat who I talk to a lot and he meows back in response. I never really noticed this stuff because it was the norm.
Also, the “subjects were warned that either a square or a diamond would appear in one of the six rings, and they were to decide as fast and as accurately as possible which shape was presented.” On every trial, the outside of the target rings appeared as the distractor shape and the shape could be the same shape as either the target or the alternative target. The study found that hearing individuals showed greater distractibility from central than peripheral distractors, while deaf individuals showed the opposite. Another findings were that “in hearing individuals attention is at its peak in the center of the visual field, deaf individuals show greater attention at peripheral locations.” Lastly, the “auditory areas in the superior temporal sulcus, caudal to the primary auditory cortex, showed greater recruitment in Deaf than in hearing individuals when processing visual, tactile, or signed stimuli [23, 24,
...d was a shrill screeching sound. It was the Rake. It was not caught anywhere on camera but I am sure of it just by the noise. To this day I still can not even listen to the recording long enough to even begin to try to decipher or interpret it. I have not let anybody else listen to it yet either, not even the others who have experienced the Rake. All I know is that I have heard that exact sound before, and I now believe that it spoke when it was hunched in front of my wife that night. I do not recall hearing any sound from it at the time, but for some reason, the sickening sound on the recording immediately transports me back to that awful night.
Attempting to recover from my embarrassment, I was suddenly startled by a cacophony . . . music, perhaps? It must have been music, because I glanced down to find my foot tapping away to a beat long forgotten.
quiet until I felt my chair shaking. I saw the tea water moving and my
I could hear short steps, TAP-TAP-TAP, and I could see many feet walking fast, very fast. Wh...
Hearing is known to be an automatic function of the body. According to the dictionary, hearing is, “the faculty or sense by which sound is perceived; the act of perceiving sound,” (“hearing…”). Hearing is a physical and involuntary act; therefore, unless one is born with a specific form of deafness, everyone has the natural ability to hear sounds. Sounds constantly surround us in our everyday environments, and because we are so accustomed to hearing certain sounds we sometimes don’t acknowledge them at all (or “listen” to them). The dictionary definition of listening is, “to give attention with the ear; attend closely for the purpose of hearing,” (“listening…”).