Clicker Questions Lectures 1-4

Question 1

Boyle’s Law: When the chest wall expands, volume of the lungs increases, alveolar pressure (blank) and air flows (blank) to the lungs.

Answer 1

decreases

in

Question 2

The peural linkage attaches the (blank) to the (blank)

Answer 2

lungs

ribs

Question 3

The interosseous portion of the internal intercostal smuscle is active during

Answer 3

expiration

Question 4

The ratio of inspiration to expiration for rest breathing is (blank), while the ratio is (blank) during breating for speech.

Answer 4

40-60

10-90

Question 5

Quiet breathing often requires the use of accessory inspiratory muscles of the neck, chest, abdomen and back

True or False?

Answer 5

False

Question 6

Which of the following is an important abdominal muscle of expiration?

Answer 6

Transverse abdominis

Question 7

Vital capacity it (blank)

Answer 7

the amount of air exchanged during maximal exhalation followed by a maximal inhalation

Question 8

Resting lung volume is

Answer 8

the percent of vital capacity at which the forces of lung collapse are equaled by the forces of chest wall exapansion which occurs at 38-40% of VC

Question 9

True or False? On the pressure relaxation curve, one can see that if a speaker took a very deep breath (for example 90% VC), there would be considerable pressure on the chest wall to collapse

Answer 9

True

Question 10

At high lung volumes, pressure on teh chest wall to collapse during speech is counteracted by (blank)

Answer 10

gradual relaxation of the muscles of inspiration (checking action)

Question 11

The Typical respiratory position for speech and singing is (blank)

Answer 11

to keep the abdominal wall held inward (contracted), thereby elongatin the diaphragm and thoracic expiratory muscles, permitting rapid contraction

Question 12

One of the major biological functions of the larynx is to

Answer 12

protect the respiratory system from food and liquid

Question 13

Elasticity means that a body is capable of being deformed (stretched, compressed, ect) and then (blank)

Answer 13

returning to its normal configuration

Question 14

During vocal fold vibration, (blank) is typically a forced to close, while (blank ) is a forrce to open

Answer 14

the Bernoulii Forc

Question 15

True or False?

During vocal fold vibration, the action of the muscles of adduction alternate with the action of the muscles of abduction to maintain the vibratory motion of the vocal folds

Answer 15

true

Question 16

True or False?

Although longer and more massive the vocal folds vibrate more slowly than shorter and less massive vocal folds, raising pitchin an individual speaker is achieved primarily through stretcing the vocal folds

Answer 16

true

Question 17

The true vocal folds are made up of the vocal processes of the arytenoids cartilages, the epithelial cover, the vocal ligament and the (blank)

Answer 17

thyrovocalis muscle

Question 18

Vocal folds that are abdcted are (blank)

Answer 18

open

Question 19

The muscles of medial compression are the (blank) and the (blank)

Answer 19

lateral cricoarytenoids

interarytenoids

Question 20

True or False?

The periodic wave produced by the vocal fold vibration is complex becasue the different vibratory movements of the three layers of lamina propria and the tyrovocalis muscle.

Answer 20

True

Question 21

The laryngeal spectrum consists of (blank)

Answer 21

The fundamental frequency plus whole-number multiples of the fundamental frequency

Question 22

The primary muscles of pitch elevation are the _______________, but they can be supplemented by the action of the ___________________.

Answer 22

cricothyroids

Question 23

The primary muscles of pitch lowering are the (blank) but they can be supplemented by teh actio nof the (blank)

Answer 23

thyromuscularis muscles

infrahyoids

Question 24

increased intensity requires increased

Answer 24

subglottal pressure

Question 25

For loud voices (high intensity), the closed phase of the glottal cycle is (blank) compared to soft voices (low intensity)

Answer 25

longer

Question 26

Two of the important muscles of the pharynx are the (blank) and the (blank)

Answer 26

middle constrictors

stylopharyngeus

Question 27

Two muscles that open the velopharyngeal port during speech are the (blank) and the (blank)

Answer 27

palatoglossus

palatopharyngeus

Question 28

Two extrinsic muscles of the tongue the styloglossus and the palatoglossus, move the back (posterior) part of the tongue up and back but only (blank) extrinsic muscle moves the tongue up and forward

Answer 28

genioglossus

Question 29

Simple Harmonic Motion (SHM) is characterized by all of the following except

Answer 29

a patttern of vibration that can be graphically represented as a complex wave

Question 30

As the tine of a vibrating tuning fork moves toward its rest position, the (blank) increases

Answer 30

force of inertia

Question 31

Amplitude of vibration initally depends on teh amount of force applied to the oscillator; but if no additional force is appliaed to the oscillator the vibration will become (blank)

Answer 31

damped

Question 32

As a vibrating body moves AWAY from its rest position and toward teh point of maximusm displacement, its elasticity or tendency to resist deformation

Answer 32

increases

Question 34

If the period of a sound wave is 0.5 ms, what is its frequency?

Answer 34

2,000 Hz

Question 35

As the motion of an oscillator is conveyed to the air molecules surroundin git, the wave travels (is propagated) as periods of (blank)

Answer 35

compression and rarefaction

Question 36

True or False

A single air molecule can travel for hundreds of yards in response to the movement of an oscillator

Answer 36

false

Question 37

If two waves with the same frequency are 180 degrees out of phase, the resulting sound would be (blank)

Answer 37

silence

Question 38

Periodic complex waves contain

Answer 38

multiple frequencies that are harmonically related

Question 39

The fundamental frequency of a tone with harmonics at 300 Hz, 450 Hz, and 600 Hz is (blank)

Answer 39

150 Hz

Question 40

A line spectrum is different from a waveform in that (blank)

a. the line spectrum shows the amplitude of frequency components, while the waveform does not

the waveform shows each harmonic component, while the line spectrum does not

the waveform shows changes over time, while the line spectrum does not

both A and C

Answer 40

both A and C

Question 41

Intensity is converted to dB by (blank)

Answer 41

comparing the intensity of the observed sound to a reference sound, taking the log of the ratio and multiplying by 10

Question 42

The Phon Scale shows (blank)

Answer 42

how listeners’ percetions of intensity differ from actual measures of intensity

Question 43

in order to calculate wavelength, one needs to know (blank)

Answer 43

the speed of sound