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Drew Stephenson
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Question 1

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Auricle:
Answer
  • The eardrum, receives sound vibrations from the outer air and then transmitted to the middle ear
  • Collects and guides sound waves to the tympanic membrane
  • Receives sound waves from tympanic membrane and amplifies and transports vibrations
  • Used to sense lower frequency sounds and transmits sounds to the brain, transfers waves to electrical impulses

Question 2

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Malleus, Incus, and Stapes:
Answer
  • Works like a valve to regulate pressure in the ear
  • Receives sounds waves from tympanic membrane and amplifies and transports vibrations
  • Regulates pressure in the ear and equalizes it with pressure outside the body
  • Receives vibrations from stapes and transfers energy to fluid waves in the inner ear

Question 3

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Tympanic Membrane:
Answer
  • The eardrum, receives sound vibrations from the outer air and then transmitted to the middle ear
  • Regulates pressure in the ear and equalizes it with pressure outside the body
  • Connects the cochlea with the brain and sends sound signals to the brain
  • Used to sense lower frequency sounds and transmits sounds to the brain, transfers waves to electrical impulses

Question 4

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Semicircular Canals:
Answer
  • Receives vibrations from stapes and transfers energy to fluid waves in the inner ear
  • Arc shaped tubes that help the body maintain balance and regulate balance by fluids in there
  • Connects the cochlea with the brain and sends sound signals to the brain
  • Works like a valve to regulate pressure in the ear

Question 5

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Cochlea:
Answer
  • The eardrum, receives sound vibrations from the outer air and then transmitted to the middle ear
  • Receives sounds waves from tympanic membrane and amplifies and transports vibrations
  • Arc shaped tubes that help the body maintain balance and regulate balance by fluids in there
  • Used to transmit sound to the brain, transfers waves to electrical impulses

Question 6

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Auditory Nerves:
Answer
  • An entry way for sounds, amplifies, resonates, and localizes sound
  • Used to sense lower frequency sounds and transmits sounds to the brain, transfers waves to electrical impulses
  • Connects the cochlea with the brain and sends sound signals to the brain
  • Works like a valve to regulate pressure in the ear

Question 7

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Oval Window:
Answer
  • Receives vibrations from stapes and transfers energy to fluid waves in the inner ear
  • An entry way for sounds, amplifies, resonates, and localizes sound
  • Works like a valve to regulate pressure in the ear
  • Collects and guides sound waves to the tympanic membrane

Question 8

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Round Window:
Answer
  • Arc shaped tubes that help the body maintain balance and regulate balance by fluids in there
  • Works like a valve to regulate pressure in the ear
  • Receives sounds waves from tympanic membrane and amplifies and transports vibrations
  • Collects and guides sound waves to the tympanic membrane

Question 9

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Eustachian Tube:
Answer
  • Permits equalization of air pressure between the inner ear and the outside air
  • Connects the inner ear with the throat
  • Is normally open and closes when we swallow or yawn
  • Connects the middle ear with the nasopharynx

Question 10

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Ear Canal:
Answer
  • An entry way for sounds, amplifies, resonates, and localizes sound
  • Connects the cochlea with the brain and sends sound signals to the brain
  • Used to sense lower frequency sounds and transmits sounds to the brain, transfers waves to electrical impulses
  • Works like a valve to regulate pressure in the ear

Question 11

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Which of these ARE three main types of hearing loss?
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  • Mixed
  • Unilateral
  • Fixed
  • Conductive
  • Middle-Ear
  • Tympanic
  • Sensorineural

Question 12

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Select FIVE different configurations/shapes of hearing loss...
Answer
  • Symmetrical
  • Irreversible
  • Progressive
  • Fluctuating
  • Conductive
  • Permanent
  • Asymmetrical
  • Bilateral

Question 13

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What is the interaural attenuation for air conduction with the TDH headphones?
Answer
  • 40 dB
  • 50 dB
  • 55 dB
  • 60 dB
  • None of the above

Question 14

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What is the interaural attenuation for bone conduction?
Answer
  • 10 dB
  • 5 dB
  • 15 dB
  • 0 dB
  • None of the above

Question 15

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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?
Answer
  • 25 dB SL
  • 30 dB SL
  • 20 dB SL
  • 10 dB SL
  • None of the above

Question 16

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Recruitment is the sensitivity to sound that anyone can suffer from.
Answer
  • True
  • False

Question 17

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There are actually 4 different categories or types of presbycusis.
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  • True
  • False

Question 18

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What are the 4 different means of conducting sound to the brain?
Answer
  • Acoustic, mechanical, air, chemical
  • Air, hydraulic, chemical, electrical
  • Vibration, fluid, chemical, electrical
  • Acoustic, mechanical, hydraulic, electrical
  • None of the above

Question 19

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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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  • UCL
  • MCL
  • SRT
  • DR
  • TD

Question 20

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Spondees are utilized for establishing?
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  • SRT
  • Word recognition
  • Pure-tone threshold
  • Hearing aid response requirements
  • Threshold of connected discourse

Question 21

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Which of the following tests would you NOT want to familiarize the subject with the test words?
Answer
  • Word recognition
  • SRT
  • MCL
  • TD
  • SDT

Question 22

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The relationship that should exist between the pure-tone average and SRT is?
Answer
  • SRT should be less than the pure-tone average
  • SRT should be equal to the pure-tone average
  • SRT should be greater than the pure-tone average
  • No relationship exists
  • Not sufficient enough information

Question 23

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If testing was performed at 25dB above threshold, this would be recorded as?
Answer
  • 25 dB SPL
  • 25 dB MCL
  • 25 dB SL
  • 25 dB HL
  • 25 dB

Question 24

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Which of the following audiometric measures is routinely expressed in dB SPL?
Answer
  • Pure-tone thresholds
  • SRT
  • Word recognition
  • Dynamic range
  • None of the above

Question 25

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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)?
Answer
  • 130 dB
  • 140 dB
  • 110 dB
  • 120 dB
  • None of the above

Question 26

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The rollover phenomenon:
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  • Occurs at levels greater than PB max
  • Has a distinct shape
  • May appear in 8th nerve problems
  • Is questionable in brainstem problems
  • All of the above

Question 27

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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
  • If you have masked for air conduction
  • Whenever there is a difference between the ears.
  • All the time
  • Rarely

Question 28

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In the inner ear, the transmitting medium for sound is considered to be?
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  • Air
  • Bone
  • Fluid
  • Solid
  • All of the above

Question 29

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The most protruding landmark on the tympanic membrane is the?
Answer
  • Umbo
  • The anterior and posterior malleolar folds
  • Anterior process of the malleus
  • The lateral process of the malleus
  • The annulus

Question 30

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The epitympanic recess:
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  • Is also call the attic
  • Is mostly filled by the head of the malleus and much of the incus
  • Is the retraction of the eardrum caused by lack of pressure
  • Both a and b
  • Both b and c

Question 31

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The two basic parts of a sound wave are?
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  • frequency and amplitude
  • spectra and pitch
  • period and wave length
  • compression and rarefaction
  • loudness and intensity

Question 32

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Approximately how many hair cells are there in the organ of corti?
Answer
  • About 5000 inner hair cells and about 10,000 outer hair cells
  • About 12,000 inner hair cells and about 20,000 outer hair cells
  • About 500 inner hair cells and about 1,000 outer hair cells
  • About 100 inner hair cells and about 100 outer hair cells
  • About 20,000 inner hair cells and about 1500 outer hair cells

Question 33

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The essential parts of the organs of hearing and balance are situated in:
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  • The mastoid bone
  • The tympanic bone
  • The meatal bone
  • The temporal bone
  • The cochlear bone

Question 34

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The annular ligament:
Answer
  • Suspends the auditory ossicles within the middle ear cavity
  • Connects the tympanic membrane to the external auditory meatus walls
  • Is that ligament which annually develops to age 17-18
  • Fastens the footplate of the stapes to the bony wall of the oval window
  • Is responsible for maintaining tension on the tympanic membrane

Question 35

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How many octaves lie between 500 Hz and 8000 Hz?
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  • 2
  • 4
  • 6
  • 8
  • 10

Question 36

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The frequency of a pure tone is determined by?
Answer
  • the amplitude of the vibrator
  • friction acting on the vibrator
  • the spectrum of the pure tone
  • the intensity of the pure tone
  • the number of complete cycles occurring per second

Question 37

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If two tones of the same frequency and intensity are 180 degrees out of phase:
Answer
  • their intensities are additive and resonance occurs
  • a different tone will be heard
  • no sound will be heard
  • their collective intensity will be half the original intensity
  • the frequency will be halved

Question 38

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If two tones of the same frequency and intensity are 180 degrees out of phase:
Answer
  • their intensities are additive and resonance occurs
  • a different tone will be heard
  • no sound will be heard
  • their collective intensity will be half the original intensity
  • the frequency will be halved

Question 39

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When the SPL of a sound is 0, it means that:
Answer
  • there is no sound present
  • the sound is the softest sound that can be detected
  • the sound measured has pressure equal to the arbitrary reference level
  • both (b) and (c)
  • none of the above

Question 40

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Pitch is to frequency as:
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  • loudness is to frequency
  • loudness is to intensity
  • loudness is to wavelength
  • loudness is to pitch
  • loudness is to spectrum

Question 41

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Essentials necessary for sound to be created and heard are?
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  • vibrator, medium, listener
  • vibrator, medium, force
  • vibrator, force, medium, listener
  • vibrator, force, listener

Question 42

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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
  • low frequencies have less intelligibility and less power
  • high frequencies have more intelligibility and more power
  • high frequencies have less intelligibility and less power
  • high frequencies have more intelligibility, but less power

Question 43

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The frequency limits of the audible area of man range from:
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  • 1 to 10,000 Hz
  • 125 to 8000 Hz
  • 250 to 8000 Hz
  • 20 to 20,000 Hz
  • 300 to 3000 Hz

Question 44

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The frequency limits of the audible area of man range from:
Answer
  • 1 to 10,000 Hz
  • 125 to 8000 Hz
  • 250 to 8000 Hz
  • 20 to 20,000 Hz
  • 300 to 3000 Hz

Question 45

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Select the approximate dB intensity decrease as the distance from a sound source is doubled:
Answer
  • 3 dB
  • 2 dB
  • 12 dB
  • 6 dB
  • 4 dB

Question 46

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If the 4th harmonic in an auditory stimulus is 1600 Hz, the fundamental frequency of that stimulus is?
Answer
  • 800 Hz
  • 400 Hz
  • 200 Hz
  • 6400 Hz
  • 3200 Hz

Question 47

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The fundamental frequency is the:
Answer
  • Psychological response to a pure tone
  • Lowest frequency component of a complex tone
  • Most commonly occurring frequency in a noise stimulus
  • Frequency that is basic to all tones
  • None of the above

Question 48

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Most speech intelligibility is contained in which of the following frequency regions?
Answer
  • 62 – 500 Hz
  • 500 – 1000 Hz
  • 1000 – 2000 Hz
  • 1000 – 8000 Hz
  • It is equal in each of the examples

Question 49

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Select the correct disorder/condition based on the photo:
Image:
fe781272-6c9c-4aa9-809b-687d582fba50.PNG (image/PNG)
Answer
  • Cerumen
  • Exotosis
  • Perforation
  • Otosclerosis
  • Cholesteatoma

Question 50

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Select the correct disorder/condition based on the photo:
Image:
76d189f3-5ea3-4349-931d-2910fc53666b.PNG (image/PNG)
Answer
  • Exotosis
  • Foreign Body
  • Tympanosclerosis
  • Otosclerosis
  • Prolapsed Canal

Question 51

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Select the correct disorder/condition based on the photo:
Image:
e1d2e916-6e34-4031-a820-c1f9542a1592.PNG (image/PNG)
Answer
  • Otitis Media
  • Otosclerosis
  • Otitis Externa
  • Exotosis
  • Foreign Body

Question 52

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Select the correct disorder/condition based on the photo:
Image:
c866f006-737d-492a-9656-c4a4ab604471.PNG (image/PNG)
Answer
  • Otosclerosis
  • Cerumen
  • Exotosis
  • Foreign Body
  • Tympanosclerosis
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