Title: HIS 150 Quiz 7.1
Course: 14SP-HIS-150-GWB2-HEAR. INSTRU. FITTING METHODS > Section: Dropbox

Q: <span style="font-family:'Tahoma'"><span style="font-size:12pt">The movements (shearing action) of the outer hair cells against the __________ create the opportunity for electrical frequency analysis.</span></span>
- <span style="font-family:'Tahoma'"><span style="font-size:12pt">Basilar membrane</span></span>
- <span style="font-family:'Tahoma'"><span style="font-size:12pt">Reisner’s membrane</span></span>
- <span style="font-family:'Tahoma'"><span style="font-size:12pt">Tympanic membrane</span></span>
- <span style="font-family:'Tahoma'"><span style="font-size:12pt">Tectorial membrane</span></span>
A: <span style="font-family:'Tahoma'"><span style="font-size:12pt">Tectorial membrane</span></span>

Q: <span style="font-family:'Tahoma'"><span style="font-size:12pt">Outer hair cells provide approximately _____________ for low and high frequencies, respectfully.</span></span>
- <span style="font-family:'Tahoma'"><span style="font-size:12pt">10/20 dB gain</span></span>
- <span style="font-family:'Tahoma'"><span style="font-size:12pt">30/40 dB gain</span></span>
- <span style="font-family:'Tahoma'"><span style="font-size:12pt">50/60 dB gain</span></span>
- <span style="font-family:'Tahoma'"><span style="font-size:12pt">70/80 dB gain</span></span>
A: <span style="font-family:'Tahoma'"><span style="font-size:12pt">50/60 dB gain</span></span>

Q: <span style="font-family:'Tahoma'"><span style="font-size:12pt">Within some of today’s digital hearing instruments, more than one million transistors may be found in a single hearing instrument.</span></span>
- <span style="font-family:'Tahoma'"><span style="font-size:12pt">True</span></span>
- <span style="font-family:'Tahoma'"><span style="font-size:12pt">False</span></span>
A: <span style="font-family:'Tahoma'"><span style="font-size:12pt">True</span></span>

Q: <span style="font-family:'Tahoma'"><span style="font-size:12pt">If speech is presented at 50dB HL, in the presence of 40dB HL of noise, this would be termed a _____ signal-to-noise ratio (SNR) difference.</span></span>
- <span style="font-family:'Tahoma'"><span style="font-size:12pt">1dB</span></span>
- <span style="font-family:'Tahoma'"><span style="font-size:12pt">10dB</span></span>
- <span style="font-family:'Tahoma'"><span style="font-size:12pt">90db</span></span>
- <span style="font-family:'Tahoma'"><span style="font-size:12pt">-10db</span></span>
A: <span style="font-family:'Tahoma'"><span style="font-size:12pt">10dB</span></span>

Q: <span style="font-family:'Tahoma'"><span style="font-size:12pt">Which of the four fitting methods discussed in Venema, chapter three was, by far, the most popular?</span></span>
- <span style="font-family:'Tahoma'"><span style="font-size:12pt">Berger</span></span>
- <span style="font-family:'Tahoma'"><span style="font-size:12pt">POGO</span></span>
- <span style="font-family:'Tahoma'"><span style="font-size:12pt">Libby</span></span>
- <span style="font-family:'Tahoma'"><span style="font-size:12pt">NAL-R</span></span>
A: <span style="font-family:'Tahoma'"><span style="font-size:12pt">NAL-R</span></span>

Q: <span style="font-family:'Tahoma'"><span style="font-size:12pt">Psychoacoustically, the loudness growth frequency contours for non-pathologic hearing are almost “flat” at ___________ decibels.</span></span>
- <span style="font-family:'Tahoma'"><span style="font-size:12pt">Sixty</span></span>
- <span style="font-family:'Tahoma'"><span style="font-size:12pt">Eighty</span></span>
- <span style="font-family:'Tahoma'"><span style="font-size:12pt">One hundred</span></span>
- <span style="font-family:'Tahoma'"><span style="font-size:12pt">One hundred twenty</span></span>
A: <span style="font-family:'Tahoma'"><span style="font-size:12pt">One hundred</span></span>

Q: <span style="font-family:'Tahoma'"><span style="font-size:12pt">Which of the following fitting formulae has its fitting targets most often measured in dBSPL?</span></span>
- <span style="font-family:'Tahoma'"><span style="font-size:12pt">DSL</span></span>
- <span style="font-family:'Tahoma'"><span style="font-size:12pt">Berger</span></span>
- <span style="font-family:'Tahoma'"><span style="font-size:12pt">POGO</span></span>
- <span style="font-family:'Tahoma'"><span style="font-size:12pt">NAL</span></span>
A: <span style="font-family:'Tahoma'"><span style="font-size:12pt">DSL</span></span>

Q: <span style="font-family:'Tahoma'"><span style="font-size:12pt">The cochlear duct is also known as the:</span></span>
- <span style="font-family:'Tahoma'"><span style="font-size:12pt">Scala Tympani</span></span>
- <span style="font-family:'Tahoma'"><span style="font-size:12pt">Scala Vestibuli</span></span>
- <span style="font-family:'Tahoma'"><span style="font-size:12pt">Scala Media</span></span>
- <span style="font-family:'Tahoma'"><span style="font-size:12pt">Scala Symponi</span></span>
A: <span style="font-family:'Tahoma'"><span style="font-size:12pt">Scala Media</span></span>

Q: <span style="font-family:'Tahoma'"><span style="font-size:12pt">The brain can only store auditory information on its surface area.</span></span>
- <span style="font-family:'Tahoma'"><span style="font-size:12pt">True</span></span>
- <span style="font-family:'Tahoma'"><span style="font-size:12pt">False</span></span>
A: <span style="font-family:'Tahoma'"><span style="font-size:12pt">True</span></span>

Q: <span style="font-family:'Tahoma'"><span style="font-size:12pt">Auditory processing damage within the temporal lobe may </span></span><span style="font-size:12pt"><span style="font-family:'Tahoma'"><u>not</u> occur with:</span></span>
- <span style="font-family:'Tahoma'"><span style="font-size:12pt">Birth injury</span></span>
- <span style="font-family:'Tahoma'"><span style="font-size:12pt">Stroke</span></span>
- <span style="font-family:'Tahoma'"><span style="font-size:12pt">Otosclerosis</span></span>
- <span style="font-family:'Tahoma'"><span style="font-size:12pt">Head trauma</span></span>
A: <span style="font-family:'Tahoma'"><span style="font-size:12pt">Otosclerosis</span></span>

Q: <span style="font-family:'Tahoma'"><span style="font-size:12pt">Best word recognition scores may be expected with the presence of _________.</span></span>
- <span style="font-family:'Tahoma'"><span style="font-size:12pt">Increased loudness</span></span>
- <span style="font-family:'Tahoma'"><span style="font-size:12pt">Binaural summation</span></span>
- <span style="font-family:'Tahoma'"><span style="font-size:12pt">Binaural deprivation</span></span>
- <span style="font-family:'Tahoma'"><span style="font-size:12pt">Increased frequency stimulation</span></span>
A: <span style="font-family:'Tahoma'"><span style="font-size:12pt">Binaural summation</span></span>

Q: <span style="font-family:'Tahoma'"><span style="font-size:12pt">A fifteen decibel difference between the stimuli to each ear creates the:</span></span>
- <span style="font-family:'Tahoma'"><span style="font-size:12pt">Summation difference</span></span>
- <span style="font-family:'Tahoma'"><span style="font-size:12pt">Air-bone gap</span></span>
- <span style="font-family:'Tahoma'"><span style="font-size:12pt">Weber effect</span></span>
- <span style="font-family:'Tahoma'"><span style="font-size:12pt">Stenger effect</span></span>
A: <span style="font-family:'Tahoma'"><span style="font-size:12pt">Stenger effect</span></span>

Q: <span style="font-family:'Tahoma'"><span style="font-size:12pt">Correct bilateral electroacoustic stimulation of the auditory system generally results in:</span></span>
- <span style="font-family:'Tahoma'"><span style="font-size:12pt">Increased masking level difference</span></span>
- <span style="font-family:'Tahoma'"><span style="font-size:12pt">Binaural summation</span></span>
- <span style="font-family:'Tahoma'"><span style="font-size:12pt">Binaural deprivation</span></span>
- <span style="font-family:'Tahoma'"><span style="font-size:12pt">Increased frequency stimulation</span></span>
A: <span style="font-family:'Tahoma'"><span style="font-size:12pt">Binaural summation</span></span>

Q: <span style="font-family:'Tahoma'"><span style="font-size:12pt">The effects of auditory deprivation will not occur as long as one of the hearing impaired ears is stimulated through amplification.</span></span>
- <span style="font-family:'Tahoma'"><span style="font-size:12pt">True</span></span>
- <span style="font-family:'Tahoma'"><span style="font-size:12pt">False</span></span>
A: <span style="font-family:'Tahoma'"><span style="font-size:12pt">False</span></span>

Q: <span style="font-family:'Tahoma'"><span style="font-size:12pt">In HI dispensing, the largest venting size is most often used with:</span></span>
- <span style="font-family:'Tahoma'"><span style="font-size:12pt">Profound hearing loss</span></span>
- <span style="font-family:'Tahoma'"><span style="font-size:12pt">Severe hearing loss</span></span>
- <span style="font-family:'Tahoma'"><span style="font-size:12pt">Moderate hearing loss</span></span>
- <span style="font-family:'Tahoma'"><span style="font-size:12pt">Mild hearing loss</span></span>
A: <span style="font-family:'Tahoma'"><span style="font-size:12pt">Mild hearing loss</span></span>

Q: <span style="font-family:'Tahoma'"><span style="font-size:12pt">Which audiometric test provides information regarding occlusion lateralization?</span></span>
- <span style="font-family:'Tahoma'"><span style="font-size:12pt">Pure tone bone conduction</span></span>
- <span style="font-family:'Tahoma'"><span style="font-size:12pt">Pure tone air conduction</span></span>
- <span style="font-family:'Tahoma'"><span style="font-size:12pt">Weber testing</span></span>
- <span style="font-family:'Tahoma'"><span style="font-size:12pt">Speech reception</span></span>
A: <span style="font-family:'Tahoma'"><span style="font-size:12pt">Weber testing</span></span>

Q: <span style="font-family:'Tahoma'"><span style="font-size:12pt">________ is the condition when the peripheral auditory pathway is not “doing everything it can”.</span></span>
- <span style="font-family:'Tahoma'"><span style="font-size:12pt">A conductive hearing problem</span></span>
- <span style="font-family:'Tahoma'"><span style="font-size:12pt">A sensorineural hearing problem</span></span>
- <span style="font-family:'Tahoma'"><span style="font-size:12pt">A central hearing problem</span></span>
- <span style="font-family:'Tahoma'"><span style="font-size:12pt">A cognitive hearing problem</span></span>
A: <span style="font-family:'Tahoma'"><span style="font-size:12pt">A conductive hearing problem</span></span>

Q: <span style="font-family:'Tahoma'"><span style="font-size:12pt">The cone-of-light, revealed from otoscopy of the left eardrum, is commonly found at approximately the:</span></span>
- <span style="font-family:'Tahoma'"><span style="font-size:12pt">Twelve to one-o-clock position</span></span>
- <span style="font-family:'Tahoma'"><span style="font-size:12pt">Four to five-o-clock position</span></span>
- <span style="font-family:'Tahoma'"><span style="font-size:12pt">Six to seven-o-clock position</span></span>
- <span style="font-family:'Tahoma'"><span style="font-size:12pt">Seven to eight-o-clock position</span></span>
A: <span style="font-family:'Tahoma'"><span style="font-size:12pt">Seven to eight-o-clock position</span></span>

Q: <span style="font-family:'Tahoma'"><span style="font-size:12pt">Which physical feature of the ear would </span></span><span style="font-size:12pt"><span style="font-family:'Tahoma'"><u>not</u> decrease the middle ear volume?</span></span>
- <span style="font-family:'Tahoma'"><span style="font-size:12pt">Cholesteatoma</span></span>
- <span style="font-family:'Tahoma'"><span style="font-size:12pt">Cerumen</span></span>
- <span style="font-family:'Tahoma'"><span style="font-size:12pt">Mucosal lining</span></span>
- <span style="font-family:'Tahoma'"><span style="font-size:12pt">Otosclerosis</span></span>
A: <span style="font-family:'Tahoma'"><span style="font-size:12pt">Cerumen</span></span>

Q: <span style="font-family:'Tahoma'"><span style="font-size:12pt">To determine the maximum output of hearing instrument stimulation for the patient/client,  the dispensing professional must:</span></span>
- <span style="font-family:'Tahoma'"><span style="font-size:12pt">Determine bone conduction thresholds</span></span>
- <span style="font-family:'Tahoma'"><span style="font-size:12pt">Determine MCL by frequency</span></span>
- <span style="font-family:'Tahoma'"><span style="font-size:12pt">Determine air conduction thresholds</span></span>
- <span style="font-family:'Tahoma'"><span style="font-size:12pt">Determine LDL by frequency</span></span>
A: <span style="font-family:'Tahoma'"><span style="font-size:12pt">Determine LDL by frequency</span></span>

Q: <span style="font-family:'Tahoma'"><span style="font-size:12pt">The goal for successful hearing instrument stimulation is to:</span></span>
- <span style="font-family:'Tahoma'"><span style="font-size:12pt">Achieve audibility for soft, comfortable, and loud speech.</span></span>
- <span style="font-family:'Tahoma'"><span style="font-size:12pt">Achieve audibility for soft, comfortable, and loud sounds.</span></span>
- <span style="font-family:'Tahoma'"><span style="font-size:12pt">Achieve good word recognition scores.</span></span>
- <span style="font-family:'Tahoma'"><span style="font-size:12pt">Achieve good speech recognition scores.</span></span>
A: <span style="font-family:'Tahoma'"><span style="font-size:12pt">Achieve audibility for soft, comfortable, and loud sounds.</span></span>

Q: <span style="font-family:'Tahoma'"><span style="font-size:12pt">Frequency specific data for soft, comfortable, and loud sound processed through a hearing instrument are often accurately measured with the use of:</span></span>
- <span style="font-family:'Tahoma'"><span style="font-size:12pt">Pure tone audiometry</span></span>
- <span style="font-family:'Tahoma'"><span style="font-size:12pt">Tympanometry</span></span>
- <span style="font-family:'Tahoma'"><span style="font-size:12pt">Speech audiometry</span></span>
- <span style="font-family:'Tahoma'"><span style="font-size:12pt">Probe-microphone measurements</span></span>
A: <span style="font-family:'Tahoma'"><span style="font-size:12pt">Probe-microphone measurements</span></span>

Q: <span style="font-family:'Tahoma'"><span style="font-size:12pt">Dr. Skinner found that the normative data for UCLs created by the Kamm, Dirks, and Mickey study are often found to be within ___________ of the patient/client’s actual UCL.</span></span>
- <span style="font-family:'Tahoma'"><span style="font-size:12pt">One decibel</span></span>
- <span style="font-family:'Tahoma'"><span style="font-size:12pt">Ten decibels</span></span>
- <span style="font-family:'Tahoma'"><span style="font-size:12pt">Seventeen decibels</span></span>
- <span style="font-family:'Tahoma'"><span style="font-size:12pt">Fifty decibels</span></span>
A: <span style="font-family:'Tahoma'"><span style="font-size:12pt">Seventeen decibels</span></span>

Q: <span style="font-family:'Tahoma'"><span style="font-size:12pt">The programming of the electro-acoustic output of hearing instruments should be based upon the patient/client’s revealed _____________.</span></span>
- <span style="font-family:'Tahoma'"><span style="font-size:12pt">Loudness discomfort levels by frequency</span></span>
- <span style="font-family:'Tahoma'"><span style="font-size:12pt">Pure tone threshold levels by frequency</span></span>
- <span style="font-family:'Tahoma'"><span style="font-size:12pt">QuikSin results for each ear</span></span>
- <span style="font-family:'Tahoma'"><span style="font-size:12pt">Word recognition results for each ear</span></span>
A: <span style="font-family:'Tahoma'"><span style="font-size:12pt">Loudness discomfort levels by frequency</span></span>

Q: <span style="font-family:'Tahoma'"><span style="font-size:12pt">As hearing instrument specialists, it is our professional responsibility to make certain that the patient/client is communicating as comfortably and proficiently as a normal hearing person.</span></span>
- <span style="font-family:'Tahoma'"><span style="font-size:12pt">True</span></span>
- <span style="font-family:'Tahoma'"><span style="font-size:12pt">False</span></span>
A: <span style="font-family:'Tahoma'"><span style="font-size:12pt">False</span></span>