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Quiz 2
Drew Stephenson
Quiz by Drew Stephenson, updated more than 1 year ago
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Question 1

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Recruitment is the sensitivity to sound that anyone can suffer from.
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  • True
  • False

Question 2

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Presbycusis is hearing loss due to aging.
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  • True
  • False

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
  • Air, hydraulic, chemical, electrical
  • Vibration, fluid, chemical, electrical
  • Acoustic, mechanical, hydraulic, electrical
  • None of the above

Question 4

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Cerumen has its origin in the?
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  • Cochlea
  • External auditory meatus
  • Middle ear
  • Tympanic membrane
  • 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
  • Mechanical energy
  • Potential energy
  • Hydraulic energy
  • Kinetic energy

Question 6

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The ear is most accurately considered to be the?
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  • Organ of hearing
  • Outer ear
  • Organ of equilibrium
  • Pinna
  • Both a and c

Question 7

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The normal condition of the Eustachian tube is?
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  • Usually open
  • Usually closed
  • Usually about equally open and closed in time
  • Opened only by accident
  • Closed only by accident

Question 8

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The fluid that fills the cochlear duct is?
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  • Perilymph
  • Endolymph
  • Cerebrospinal fluid
  • Both a and b
  • 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
  • Both lows and highs represented all along the basilar membrane
  • Highs at the basal end and lows at the apical end
  • Highs at the basal end and lows all along the basilar membrane
  • 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
  • Bone
  • Fluid
  • Solid
  • 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?
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  • 1:1
  • 3:1
  • 6:1
  • 17:1
  • 27:1

Question 12

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The most protruding landmark on the tympanic membrane is the?
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  • Umbo
  • The anterior and posterior malleolar folds
  • Anterior process of the malleolus
  • The lateral process of the malleolus
  • The annulus

Question 13

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The epitympanic recess:
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  • Is also call the attic
  • Is mostly filled by the head of the malleus and much of the incus
  • Is the retraction of the eardrum caused by lack of pressure
  • Both a and b
  • Both b and c

Question 14

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Which of the following does not relate to the inner ear?
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  • Semicircular canals
  • Cochlea
  • Vestibule
  • Perilymph
  • ossicles

Question 15

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Which of the following does not relate to the cochlea?
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  • Helicotrema
  • Organ of corti
  • Basilar membrane
  • The horizontal or lateral canal
  • Modiolus

Question 16

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The two basic parts of a sound wave are?
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  • frequency and amplitude
  • spectra and pitch
  • period and wave length
  • compression and rarefaction
  • loudness and intensity

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
  • About 12,000 inner hair cells and about 20,000 outer hair cells
  • About 500 inner hair cells and about 1,000 outer hair cells
  • About 100 inner hair cells and about 100 outer hair cells
  • 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
  • The tympanic bone
  • The meatal bone
  • The temporal bone
  • 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
  • Connects the tympanic membrane to the external auditory meatus walls
  • Is that ligament which annually develops to age 17-18
  • Fastens the footplate of the stapes to the bony wall of the oval window
  • 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?
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  • 2
  • 4
  • 6
  • 8
  • 10

Question 21

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The frequency of a pure tone is determined by?
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  • the amplitude of the vibrator
  • friction acting on the vibrator
  • the spectrum of the pure tone
  • the intensity of the pure tone
  • 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
  • a different tone will be heard
  • no sound will be heard
  • their collective intensity will be half the original intensity
  • the frequency will be halved

Question 23

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Pitch is to frequency as:
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  • loudness is to frequency
  • loudness is to intensity
  • loudness is to wavelength
  • loudness is to pitch
  • loudness is to spectrum

Question 24

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Essentials necessary for sound to be created and heard are?
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  • vibrator, medium, listener
  • vibrator, medium, force
  • vibrator, medium, force, listener
  • vibrator, force, listener
  • 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
  • low frequencies have less intelligibility and less power
  • high frequencies have more intelligibility and more power
  • high frequencies have less intelligibility and less power
  • 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
  • 125 to 8000 Hz
  • 250 to 8000 Hz
  • 20 to 20,000 Hz
  • 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
  • 2 dB
  • 12 dB
  • 6 dB
  • 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
  • 400 Hz
  • 200 Hz
  • 6400 Hz
  • 3200 Hz

Question 29

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The fundamental frequency is the:
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  • Psychological response to a pure tone
  • Lowest frequency component of a complex tone
  • Most commonly occurring frequency in a noise stimulus
  • Frequency that is basic to all tones
  • None of the above

Question 30

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Most speech intelligibility is contained in which of the following frequency regions?
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  • 62 – 500 Hz
  • 500 – 1000 Hz
  • 1000 – 2000 Hz
  • 1000 – 8000 Hz
  • It is equal in each of the examples
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