Intro to Audiology Final Exam Questions and Answers

Intro to Audiology Final Exam Questions and Answers moderate degree hearing loss - Correct Answer ️️ -41-55 dB HL what do audiologist do? (3) - Correct Answer ️️ -prevention, rehabilitation, habilitation birth place of audiology - Correct Answer ️️ -military hospitals when was audiology "born" - Correct Answer ️️ -world war II "parents" of audiology - Correct Answer ️️ -otology, speech pathology number of people hard of hearing in the U.S. - Correct Answer ️️ -30 million number of people classified as deaf in the U.S. - Correct Answer ️️ -2 million percent of U.S. population with hearing loss - Correct Answer ️️ -10% impact of hearing loss on children - Correct Answer ️️ -development of langauge impact of hearing loss on adults - Correct Answer ️️ -ability to work main negative impact of hearing loss on everyone that has it - Correct Answer ️️ - makes communication difficult audiology specialties (5) - Correct Answer ️️ -medical, rehabilitative, pediatric, educational, industrial ways to hear (2) - Correct Answer ️️ -air conduction, bone conduction parts of conductive mechanism (2) - Correct Answer ️️ -outer ear, middle ear parts of sensorineural mechanism (2) - Correct Answer ️️ -inner ear, central auditory nervous system outer ear broad overview (3) - Correct Answer ️️ -pinna, external ear canal, tympanic membrane middle ear broad overview (2) - Correct Answer ️️ -air filled space, ossicles inner ear broad overview (2) - Correct Answer ️️ -fluid filled space, hair cells central auditory nervous system broad overview (3) - Correct Answer ️️ -auditory nerve, auditory brainstem, auditory cortex conductive hearing loss - Correct Answer ️️ -problem in outer or middle ear so air conduction hearing is impaired, but sensorineural mechanism is working properly so bone conduction is normal sensorineural hearing loss - Correct Answer ️️ -problem in inner ear or CANS so bone conduction hearing is impaired, conductive mechanism is working properly but air conduction hearing equals bone conduction hearing mixed hearing loss - Correct Answer ️️ -problem in conductive and sensorineural mechanisms, air conduction and bone conduction hearing is impaired, but air conduction will be worse physiological definition of sound - Correct Answer ️️ -sensation due to stimulation of auditory nerves and auditory centers of the brian why do we use decibels - Correct Answer ️️ -it makes very large and very small numbers associated with human hearing manageable psychoacoustics - Correct Answer ️️ -"why sounds sound the way they sound" x-axis of spectrogram - Correct Answer ️️ -time y-axis of spectrogram - Correct Answer ️️ -frequency darkness of display on spectrogram - Correct Answer ️️ -intensity vowels - Correct Answer ️️ -low frequency, high intensity consonants - Correct Answer ️️ -high frequency, low intensity for overall speech most energy is what frequency - Correct Answer ️️ -less than 1000 Hz pitch - Correct Answer ️️ -feature of auditory sensation, sounds ordered on scale from low to high loudness - Correct Answer ️️ -feature of auditory sensation, sounds ordered on scale from quiet to loud localization - Correct Answer ️️ -judging direction and distance for sounds located outside the head masking - Correct Answer ️️ -changing the threshold of audibility for one sound caused by presence of another sound correlated with intensity/amplitude, but not 1:1 - Correct An