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
That evening, as we lowered the lights, we thought we heard a quiet, muted humming of an old sailor’s song as the hallway floor creaked under what sounded like light footsteps.
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...
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.
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
Auditory localization is the ability to recognize the location from which a sound is emanating (Goldstine, 2002). There are many practical reasons for studying auditory localization. For example, previous research states that visual cues are necessary in locating a particular sound (Culling, 2000). However, blind people do not have the luxury of sight to help them locate a sound. Therefore, the ability to locate sound based only on auditory ability is important. It is also important to study different auditory processes. For example, when studying a way for a blind person to maneuver through an environment, it is helpful to know that people can most accurately locate sounds that happen directly in front of them; sounds that are far off, to the side, or behind the head are the least likely to be properly located (Goldstein, 2002).
What’s the difference between the deaf and the hearing? There is only one thing that separates the two, the ability to hear. In the Movie see what I’m saying four talented deaf individuals try everything they can to increase the fame and deaf awareness.
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.
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 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.
...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.
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,
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...