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The eardrum, receives sound vibrations from the outer air and then transmitted to the middle ear
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Collects and guides sound waves to the tympanic membrane
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Receives sound waves from tympanic membrane and amplifies and transports vibrations
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Used to sense lower frequency sounds and transmits sounds to the brain, transfers waves to electrical impulses
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Malleus, Incus, and Stapes:
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Works like a valve to regulate pressure in the ear
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Receives sounds waves from tympanic membrane and amplifies and transports vibrations
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Regulates pressure in the ear and equalizes it with pressure outside the body
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Receives vibrations from stapes and transfers energy to fluid waves in the inner ear
Frage 3
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The eardrum, receives sound vibrations from the outer air and then transmitted to the middle ear
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Regulates pressure in the ear and equalizes it with pressure outside the body
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Connects the cochlea with the brain and sends sound signals to the brain
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Used to sense lower frequency sounds and transmits sounds to the brain, transfers waves to electrical impulses
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Semicircular Canals:
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Receives vibrations from stapes and transfers energy to fluid waves in the inner ear
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Arc shaped tubes that help the body maintain balance and regulate balance by fluids in there
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Connects the cochlea with the brain and sends sound signals to the brain
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Works like a valve to regulate pressure in the ear
Frage 5
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The eardrum, receives sound vibrations from the outer air and then transmitted to the middle ear
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Receives sounds waves from tympanic membrane and amplifies and transports vibrations
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Arc shaped tubes that help the body maintain balance and regulate balance by fluids in there
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Used to transmit sound to the brain, transfers waves to electrical impulses
Frage 6
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An entry way for sounds, amplifies, resonates, and localizes sound
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Used to sense lower frequency sounds and transmits sounds to the brain, transfers waves to electrical impulses
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Connects the cochlea with the brain and sends sound signals to the brain
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Works like a valve to regulate pressure in the ear
Frage 7
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Receives vibrations from stapes and transfers energy to fluid waves in the inner ear
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An entry way for sounds, amplifies, resonates, and localizes sound
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Works like a valve to regulate pressure in the ear
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Collects and guides sound waves to the tympanic membrane
Frage 8
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Arc shaped tubes that help the body maintain balance and regulate balance by fluids in there
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Works like a valve to regulate pressure in the ear
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Receives sounds waves from tympanic membrane and amplifies and transports vibrations
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Collects and guides sound waves to the tympanic membrane
Frage 9
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Permits equalization of air pressure between the inner ear and the outside air
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Connects the inner ear with the throat
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Is normally open and closes when we swallow or yawn
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Connects the middle ear with the nasopharynx
Frage 10
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An entry way for sounds, amplifies, resonates, and localizes sound
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Connects the cochlea with the brain and sends sound signals to the brain
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Used to sense lower frequency sounds and transmits sounds to the brain, transfers waves to electrical impulses
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Works like a valve to regulate pressure in the ear
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Which of these ARE three main types of hearing loss?
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Mixed
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Unilateral
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Fixed
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Conductive
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Middle-Ear
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Tympanic
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Sensorineural
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Select FIVE different configurations/shapes of hearing loss...
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Symmetrical
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Irreversible
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Progressive
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Fluctuating
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Conductive
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Permanent
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Asymmetrical
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Bilateral
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What is the interaural attenuation for air conduction with the TDH headphones?
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40 dB
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50 dB
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55 dB
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60 dB
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None of the above
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What is the interaural attenuation for bone conduction?
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10 dB
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5 dB
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15 dB
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0 dB
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None of the above
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At what sensation level do you add to the threshold of the NTE for your starting masking level when masking for air conduction?
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25 dB SL
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30 dB SL
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20 dB SL
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10 dB SL
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None of the above
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Recruitment is the sensitivity to sound that anyone can suffer from.
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There are actually 4 different categories or types of presbycusis.
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What are the 4 different means of conducting sound to the brain?
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Acoustic, mechanical, air, chemical
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Air, hydraulic, chemical, electrical
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Vibration, fluid, chemical, electrical
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Acoustic, mechanical, hydraulic, electrical
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None of the above
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25. The speech audiometric test which tells how loud speech must be before the patient can repeat 50% of the words is?
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Spondees are utilized for establishing?
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Which of the following tests would you NOT want to familiarize the subject with the test words?
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Word recognition
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SRT
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MCL
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TD
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SDT
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The relationship that should exist between the pure-tone average and SRT is?
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SRT should be less than the pure-tone average
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SRT should be equal to the pure-tone average
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SRT should be greater than the pure-tone average
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No relationship exists
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Not sufficient enough information
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If testing was performed at 25dB above threshold, this would be recorded as?
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25 dB SPL
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25 dB MCL
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25 dB SL
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25 dB HL
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25 dB
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Which of the following audiometric measures is routinely expressed in dB SPL?
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Pure-tone thresholds
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SRT
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Word recognition
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Dynamic range
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None of the above
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If a person has a dynamic range of 50 dB, and SRT of 60 dB, and an MCL of 80 dB, what is the threshold of discomfort (UCL or LDL)?
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130 dB
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140 dB
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110 dB
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120 dB
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None of the above
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The rollover phenomenon:
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Occurs at levels greater than PB max
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Has a distinct shape
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May appear in 8th nerve problems
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Is questionable in brainstem problems
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All of the above
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In speech testing, masking is most likely to be required?
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When both ears have essentially the same SRT
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If you have masked for air conduction
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Whenever there is a difference between the ears.
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All the time
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Rarely
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In the inner ear, the transmitting medium for sound is considered to be?
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Air
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Bone
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Fluid
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Solid
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All of the above
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The most protruding landmark on the tympanic membrane is the?
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Umbo
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The anterior and posterior malleolar folds
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Anterior process of the malleus
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The lateral process of the malleus
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The annulus
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The epitympanic recess:
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The two basic parts of a sound wave are?
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Approximately how many hair cells are there in the organ of corti?
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About 5000 inner hair cells and about 10,000 outer hair cells
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About 12,000 inner hair cells and about 20,000 outer hair cells
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About 500 inner hair cells and about 1,000 outer hair cells
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About 100 inner hair cells and about 100 outer hair cells
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About 20,000 inner hair cells and about 1500 outer hair cells
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The essential parts of the organs of hearing and balance are situated in:
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The mastoid bone
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The tympanic bone
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The meatal bone
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The temporal bone
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The cochlear bone
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The annular ligament:
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Suspends the auditory ossicles within the middle ear cavity
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Connects the tympanic membrane to the external auditory meatus walls
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Is that ligament which annually develops to age 17-18
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Fastens the footplate of the stapes to the bony wall of the oval window
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Is responsible for maintaining tension on the tympanic membrane
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How many octaves lie between 500 Hz and 8000 Hz?
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The frequency of a pure tone is determined by?
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the amplitude of the vibrator
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friction acting on the vibrator
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the spectrum of the pure tone
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the intensity of the pure tone
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the number of complete cycles occurring per second
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If two tones of the same frequency and intensity are 180 degrees out of phase:
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their intensities are additive and resonance occurs
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a different tone will be heard
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no sound will be heard
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their collective intensity will be half the original intensity
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the frequency will be halved
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If two tones of the same frequency and intensity are 180 degrees out of phase:
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their intensities are additive and resonance occurs
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a different tone will be heard
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no sound will be heard
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their collective intensity will be half the original intensity
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the frequency will be halved
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When the SPL of a sound is 0, it means that:
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there is no sound present
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the sound is the softest sound that can be detected
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the sound measured has pressure equal to the arbitrary reference level
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both (b) and (c)
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none of the above
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Pitch is to frequency as:
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Essentials necessary for sound to be created and heard are?
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vibrator, medium, listener
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vibrator, medium, force
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vibrator, force, medium, listener
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vibrator, force, listener
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The relationship between speech power and speech intelligibility is?
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low frequencies have more intelligibility, but less power
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low frequencies have less intelligibility and less power
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high frequencies have more intelligibility and more power
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high frequencies have less intelligibility and less power
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high frequencies have more intelligibility, but less power
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The frequency limits of the audible area of man range from:
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1 to 10,000 Hz
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125 to 8000 Hz
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250 to 8000 Hz
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20 to 20,000 Hz
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300 to 3000 Hz
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The frequency limits of the audible area of man range from:
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1 to 10,000 Hz
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125 to 8000 Hz
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250 to 8000 Hz
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20 to 20,000 Hz
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300 to 3000 Hz
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Select the approximate dB intensity decrease as the distance from a sound source is doubled:
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3 dB
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2 dB
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12 dB
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6 dB
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4 dB
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If the 4th harmonic in an auditory stimulus is 1600 Hz, the fundamental frequency of that stimulus is?
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800 Hz
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400 Hz
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200 Hz
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6400 Hz
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3200 Hz
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The fundamental frequency is the:
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Psychological response to a pure tone
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Lowest frequency component of a complex tone
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Most commonly occurring frequency in a noise stimulus
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Frequency that is basic to all tones
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None of the above
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Most speech intelligibility is contained in which of the following frequency regions?
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Select the correct disorder/condition based on the photo:
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Cerumen
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Exotosis
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Perforation
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Otosclerosis
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Cholesteatoma
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Select the correct disorder/condition based on the photo:
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Exotosis
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Foreign Body
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Tympanosclerosis
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Otosclerosis
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Prolapsed Canal
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Select the correct disorder/condition based on the photo:
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Otitis Media
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Otosclerosis
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Otitis Externa
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Exotosis
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Foreign Body
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Select the correct disorder/condition based on the photo:
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Otosclerosis
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Cerumen
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Exotosis
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Foreign Body
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Tympanosclerosis