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AP Psychology
Unit 3 – Sensation and Perception
Topic 3.5
How does understanding the Doppler Effect from physics help explain why moving sources of sound can change our auditory perception?
It describes how diffraction impacts spatial location perception of sounds.
It demonstrates how amplitude influences our perception of loudness.
It shows how reflection affects timbre in different environments.
It explains why frequency (and thus perceived pitch) appears to change as sound source moves relative to listener.
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