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Audiology Final

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Who provided first services after WWII   SLPs  
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Who is the Father of Audiology   Raymond Carhart  
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What are you legally required to hold as an audiologist   licensure  
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How many Americans suffer from a hearing loss   28 million  
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What type of audiologist works in a medical environment and focuses on diagnostic assessments?   Medical Audiologist  
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What type of audiologist works with children and their families?   Pediatric Audiologist  
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What type of audiologist works in schools to provide services to kids   Educational Audiologist  
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What type of audiologist works in the selection of hearing aids and training in compensatory communication?   Dispensing/Rehabilitative Audiologist  
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What type of audiologist would measure high noise areas & design hearing conservation programs   Industrial Audiologist  
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What does ASHA stand for?   American Speech-Language Hearing Association  
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What structure converts sound into mechanical energy?   Tympanic Membrane  
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What structures generate OAEs?   Outer Hair Cells  
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What structures amplify mechanical input?   Ossicles  
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What structure changes mechanical energy to electrical energy   Cochlea  
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What structure transmits electric signals to the brain?   Auditory Nerve  
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In what pathway of sound does sound travel through the outer ear, middle ear, and then to cochlea?   Air Conduction Pathway  
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In what pathway does sound travel through the inner ear only and then to the cochlea?   Bone Conduction Pathway  
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What type of HL is a malfunction in the outer or middle ear?   CHL  
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What type of HL is a malfunction in the inner ear?   SNHL  
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What type of HL includes both a CHL & SNHL occurring simultaneously?   Mixed HL  
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Molecules being shoved together is referred to as a...   compression  
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Molecules being pulled apart is a...   rarefaction  
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What refers to a series of compressions and rarefactions?   Vibration  
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What type of wave is a sound wave?   Longitudinal sine wave  
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What measures cycles per second?   Frequency  
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The naturalrate of vibration of a mass, or when a mass is most easily set into vibration (greatest frequency) is what?   Resonant Frequency  
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What is the measurement of any point on the pressure wave to the same point on the next wave?   Wavelength  
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Intensity refers to the....   Loudness  
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What Law States, "as the distance from the sound source doubles, the intensity of a sound decreases by 6 dB   Inverse Square Law  
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What is the numerical measure of Intensity?   dB  
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What type of BC takes place when molecules of the skull and structures of hearing in the cochlea are displaced?   Distortional Bone Conduction  
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What type of BC takes place from swinging ossicles are causing vibrations in the skull?   Inertial Bone Conduction  
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What type of BC occurs when vibrations are not let out of the ear?   Osseotympanic Bone Conduction  
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What increases the intensity of sound delivered into the ear when the ear canal is covered?   Occlusion Effect  
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Are both ears uncovered or covered during BC tests in prevention of the Occlusion Effect?   Uncovered  
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AC poor, BC normal, and ABG   CHL  
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AC poor, BC poor, and ABG   Mixed HL  
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AC and BC thresholds are dropping within 10 dB of eachother   SNHL  
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Type of Masking that contains all frequencies used during speech testing   White Noise  
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Type of Masking that is a narrow band of noise surrounding the frequency being tested   Narrowband Noise  
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What term refers to testing one ear at a time   monaurally  
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What term refers to testing both ears simultaneously   binaurally  
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What are the stimuli for SRT testing?   spondees  
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What frequency do u set speech testing at?   NONE  
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What are the stimuli for WR testing   Phonetically Balanced 1 syllable words  
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What is the difference between the signal and the noise (Sig-noise=?)   Signal to Noise Ratio  
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Tympanic Membrane vibrates most efficiently when the pressure on both sides is...   Equal  
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ABRs estimate the threshold at what wave?   FIVE  
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What structure is responsible for auditory alertness, reflexes, and habituation?   Reticular Formation  
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Decussations are important for what?   Intrinsic Redundancy  
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Do cochlear implants restore normal hearing?   No  
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What is the limitation to screening infants with OAE's   conductive pathology  
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What is the scala media filed with?   endolymph  
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What is the rapid jerking of the eye?   nystagmus  
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What is the critical period for language learning?   Birth to age 3  
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In the pars flaccida, what layer is missing?   middle  
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