Question 1
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Recruitment is the sensitivity to sound that anyone can suffer from.
Question 2
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Presbycusis is hearing loss due to aging.
Question 3
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What are the 4 different means of conducting sound to the brain?
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Acoustic, mechanical, air, chemical
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Air, hydraulic, chemical, electrical
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Vibration, fluid, chemical, electrical
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Acoustic, mechanical, hydraulic, electrical
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None of the above
Question 4
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Cerumen has its origin in the?
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Cochlea
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External auditory meatus
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Middle ear
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Tympanic membrane
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Epitympanic recess
Question 5
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The tympanic membrane receives acoustic energy in the form of sound waves and changes or transduces it to?
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Electrical energy
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Mechanical energy
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Potential energy
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Hydraulic energy
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Kinetic energy
Question 6
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The ear is most accurately considered to be the?
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Organ of hearing
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Outer ear
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Organ of equilibrium
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Pinna
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Both a and c
Question 7
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The normal condition of the Eustachian tube is?
Question 8
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The fluid that fills the cochlear duct is?
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Perilymph
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Endolymph
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Cerebrospinal fluid
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Both a and b
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Both a and c
Question 9
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The general frequency localization on the basilar membrane is?
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Lows at the basal end and highs at the apical end
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Both lows and highs represented all along the basilar membrane
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Highs at the basal end and lows at the apical end
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Highs at the basal end and lows all along the basilar membrane
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Lows at the basal end and highs all along the basilar membrane
Question 10
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In the inner ear, the transmitting medium for sound is considered to be?
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Air
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Bone
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Fluid
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Solid
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All of the above
Question 11
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The ratio of the difference in area size between the tympanic membrane and the oval window is?
Question 12
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The most protruding landmark on the tympanic membrane is the?
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Umbo
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The anterior and posterior malleolar folds
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Anterior process of the malleolus
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The lateral process of the malleolus
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The annulus
Question 13
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The epitympanic recess:
Question 14
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Which of the following does not relate to the inner ear?
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Semicircular canals
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Cochlea
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Vestibule
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Perilymph
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ossicles
Question 15
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Which of the following does not relate to the cochlea?
Question 16
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The two basic parts of a sound wave are?
Question 17
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Approximately how many hair cells are there in the organ of corti?
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About 5000 inner hair cells and about 10,000 outer hair cells
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About 12,000 inner hair cells and about 20,000 outer hair cells
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About 500 inner hair cells and about 1,000 outer hair cells
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About 100 inner hair cells and about 100 outer hair cells
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About 20,000 inner hair cells and about 1500 outer hair cells
Question 18
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The essential parts of the organs of hearing and balance are situated in:
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The mastoid bone
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The tympanic bone
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The meatal bone
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The temporal bone
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The cochlear bone
Question 19
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The annular ligament:
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Suspends the auditory ossicles within the middle ear cavity
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Connects the tympanic membrane to the external auditory meatus walls
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Is that ligament which annually develops to age 17-18
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Fastens the footplate of the stapes to the bony wall of the oval window
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Is responsible for maintaining tension on the tympanic membrane
Question 20
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How many octaves lie between 500 Hz and 8000 Hz?
Question 21
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The frequency of a pure tone is determined by?
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the amplitude of the vibrator
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friction acting on the vibrator
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the spectrum of the pure tone
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the intensity of the pure tone
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the number of complete cycles occurring per second
Question 22
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If two tones of the same frequency and intensity are 180 degrees out of phase:
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their intensities are additive and resonance occurs
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a different tone will be heard
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no sound will be heard
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their collective intensity will be half the original intensity
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the frequency will be halved
Question 23
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Pitch is to frequency as:
Question 24
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Essentials necessary for sound to be created and heard are?
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vibrator, medium, listener
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vibrator, medium, force
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vibrator, medium, force, listener
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vibrator, force, listener
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force, medium, listener
Question 25
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The relationship between speech power and speech intelligibility is?
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low frequencies have more intelligibility, but less power
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low frequencies have less intelligibility and less power
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high frequencies have more intelligibility and more power
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high frequencies have less intelligibility and less power
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high frequencies have more intelligibility, but less power
Question 26
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The frequency limits of the audible area of man range from:
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1 to 10,000 Hz
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125 to 8000 Hz
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250 to 8000 Hz
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20 to 20,000 Hz
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300 to 3000 Hz
Question 27
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Select the approximate dB intensity decrease as the distance from a sound source is doubled:
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3 dB
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2 dB
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12 dB
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6 dB
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4 dB
Question 28
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If the 4th harmonic in an auditory stimulus is 1600 Hz, the fundamental frequency of that stimulus is?
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800 Hz
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400 Hz
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200 Hz
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6400 Hz
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3200 Hz
Question 29
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The fundamental frequency is the:
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Psychological response to a pure tone
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Lowest frequency component of a complex tone
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Most commonly occurring frequency in a noise stimulus
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Frequency that is basic to all tones
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None of the above
Question 30
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Most speech intelligibility is contained in which of the following frequency regions?