SLHS 4801 Exam 1 Questions And Answers

SLHS 4801 Exam 1 Questions And Answers What is the scope of practice? - ANSWER- Refers to the types of clinical activities in which a professional engages in and defines what is permissible for an audiologist Prevention - ANSWER- prevention of hearing loss through monitoring programs in the schools, industry and miltary identification or screening - ANSWER- identifying hearing loss through screening programs and procedures audiologic assessment - ANSWER- testing hearing ability, testing the integrity of the auditory pathways, and diagnosing aspects of hearing disorders incidence - ANSWER- the number of new cases of a condition, symptom, death or injury that develop during a specific time period prevelance - ANSWER- the proportion of individuals in a population having a disease/characteristic epidemiology - ANSWER- study of how often diseases occur in different groups of people and why pure tones - ANSWER- sounds with a single frequency why do we use pure tones? - ANSWER- it is a simplified view of hearing that stimulates a specific area and helps you figure out exactly what someone's hearing threshold is what area do pure tones stimulate on the cochlea? - ANSWER- they stimulate a very discrete area of the basilar membrane of the cochlea- it is the point that matches the frequency What frequencies does the basal end of the basilar membrane respond to? - ANSWERhigh freq what frequencies does the apex of the basilar membrane respond to? - ANSWER- low freq waveform axis - ANSWER- x-axis: time y-axis: amplitude spectrum axis - ANSWER- x: frequency y: amplitude frequency - ANSWER- number of cycles per second