ASLP 3030 CORE EXAMS 2026 MANUAL QUESTIONS AND
ANSWERS RATED A+
✔✔Resting potential - ✔✔Neural firing in the absence of stimulus
✔✔depolarization - ✔✔increase in neural firing
✔✔hyperpolarization - ✔✔decrease in neural firing
✔✔stria vascularis - ✔✔what structure is the cause of regulating the ionic environment
(endocochlear potential) in the cochlea
✔✔cochlear microphonic
summating potential
whole-nerve action potential - ✔✔What are the three responses to stimulation
✔✔Cochlear microphonic - ✔✔An alternative current potentialthat mimics
characteristics ofstimulus (
✔✔Summating potential - ✔✔Is a shift in direct current potential (positive or negative)
present during stimulus9
✔✔Whole-nerve action potential - ✔✔Represents a synchronized discharge of
numerous CN VIII fibers
✔✔Characteristic frequency (CF)??? - ✔✔Frequency at which the lowest level of
stimulation results in an increase in firing rate
✔✔information, signal periodicity - ✔✔Primary function of CN VIII is to encode
__________ in the auditory system regarding ___________________
✔✔Phase Locking - ✔✔the synchronized neural firing to a specific phase of an
incoming auditory signal
✔✔higher - ✔✔Better phase locking for _______ -frequency signals
✔✔ outer and middle ear - ✔✔What makes up the conductive mechanism
✔✔inner ear - ✔✔What makes up the sensory mechanism
✔✔central auditory nervous system (CANS) - ✔✔what. makes up the central
mechanism
, ✔✔conductive, sensory - ✔✔The peripheral system includes __________ and
___________ mechanisms
✔✔Petrous portion of the temporal bone - ✔✔What houses the end-organs of hearing
✔✔pinna - ✔✔outermost portion of the auditory system
✔✔pinna - ✔✔collects, localizes, and amplifies sound
✔✔External Auditory meatus (outer ear canal) - ✔✔A canal in the temporal bone that
leads from the auricle to the tympanic membrane
✔✔outer ear canal - ✔✔directs/transports sound, protects the ear, amplifies sound
✔✔S shape and production of earwax - ✔✔what factors contribute to the outer ear
canal's function of protecting the ear?
✔✔tympanic membrane (eardrum) - ✔✔Elastic structure that separates the outer ear
from the middle ear cavity
✔✔tympanic membrane - ✔✔transmits and converts sound waves, amplifies sound,
protection, pressure regulation
✔✔tympanic membrane - ✔✔parts include:
-pars tensa
-pars flaccida
-cone of light
-umbo
✔✔ossicles - ✔✔Threes small bones (malleus, incus, stapes) that cross the middle ear
cavity and transmit vibrations from the tympanic membrane to the inner ear
✔✔Ossicles - ✔✔transform and amplify sound
✔✔Tensor tympani muscle - ✔✔Attached to malleus and innervated bya branch of the
CN V
✔✔Stapedius muscle - ✔✔Attached to posterior portion of middle ear space and stapes
and innervated by CN VII
✔✔Acoustic Reflex - ✔✔the contraction of the stapedius muscle within the middle ear in
response to a loud sound
ANSWERS RATED A+
✔✔Resting potential - ✔✔Neural firing in the absence of stimulus
✔✔depolarization - ✔✔increase in neural firing
✔✔hyperpolarization - ✔✔decrease in neural firing
✔✔stria vascularis - ✔✔what structure is the cause of regulating the ionic environment
(endocochlear potential) in the cochlea
✔✔cochlear microphonic
summating potential
whole-nerve action potential - ✔✔What are the three responses to stimulation
✔✔Cochlear microphonic - ✔✔An alternative current potentialthat mimics
characteristics ofstimulus (
✔✔Summating potential - ✔✔Is a shift in direct current potential (positive or negative)
present during stimulus9
✔✔Whole-nerve action potential - ✔✔Represents a synchronized discharge of
numerous CN VIII fibers
✔✔Characteristic frequency (CF)??? - ✔✔Frequency at which the lowest level of
stimulation results in an increase in firing rate
✔✔information, signal periodicity - ✔✔Primary function of CN VIII is to encode
__________ in the auditory system regarding ___________________
✔✔Phase Locking - ✔✔the synchronized neural firing to a specific phase of an
incoming auditory signal
✔✔higher - ✔✔Better phase locking for _______ -frequency signals
✔✔ outer and middle ear - ✔✔What makes up the conductive mechanism
✔✔inner ear - ✔✔What makes up the sensory mechanism
✔✔central auditory nervous system (CANS) - ✔✔what. makes up the central
mechanism
, ✔✔conductive, sensory - ✔✔The peripheral system includes __________ and
___________ mechanisms
✔✔Petrous portion of the temporal bone - ✔✔What houses the end-organs of hearing
✔✔pinna - ✔✔outermost portion of the auditory system
✔✔pinna - ✔✔collects, localizes, and amplifies sound
✔✔External Auditory meatus (outer ear canal) - ✔✔A canal in the temporal bone that
leads from the auricle to the tympanic membrane
✔✔outer ear canal - ✔✔directs/transports sound, protects the ear, amplifies sound
✔✔S shape and production of earwax - ✔✔what factors contribute to the outer ear
canal's function of protecting the ear?
✔✔tympanic membrane (eardrum) - ✔✔Elastic structure that separates the outer ear
from the middle ear cavity
✔✔tympanic membrane - ✔✔transmits and converts sound waves, amplifies sound,
protection, pressure regulation
✔✔tympanic membrane - ✔✔parts include:
-pars tensa
-pars flaccida
-cone of light
-umbo
✔✔ossicles - ✔✔Threes small bones (malleus, incus, stapes) that cross the middle ear
cavity and transmit vibrations from the tympanic membrane to the inner ear
✔✔Ossicles - ✔✔transform and amplify sound
✔✔Tensor tympani muscle - ✔✔Attached to malleus and innervated bya branch of the
CN V
✔✔Stapedius muscle - ✔✔Attached to posterior portion of middle ear space and stapes
and innervated by CN VII
✔✔Acoustic Reflex - ✔✔the contraction of the stapedius muscle within the middle ear in
response to a loud sound
