Ears, Hearing And Balance Flashcards

1
Q

Where is the pinna on your body?

A

Outer ear.

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2
Q

What is the timpanic membrane?

A

Ear drum.

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3
Q

The incus, maleus and the stapes make up what?

A

Ossicles.

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4
Q

What is used for balance within the ear? The blank system.

A

Vestibular system.

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5
Q

What does the eustachian tube allow for either side of the eardrum?

A

Equalisation of air pressure,

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6
Q

What level decibel is over exposure to noise?

A

90dB

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7
Q

What does prebycusis mean?

A

Old age hearing loss.

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8
Q

Noise induced hearing loss is an occupational blank in the aviation industry.

A

Hazard.

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9
Q

What acceleration does the semi circular canal measure?

A

Angular acceleration.

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10
Q

What types of acceleration does the otolith organs measure?

A

Static and linear acceleration.

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11
Q

What can tuned resonance cause in a human?

A

Air sickness.

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12
Q

How can you prevent motion sickness.

A

Keep your eyes shut or your head still.

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13
Q

A pilot who is trying to pick up a fallen object from the cockpit floor during a tight turn may experience..

A

Coriolis illusion

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14
Q

What does an autocratic cockpit mean?

A

When the captains words are taken as the bible.

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15
Q

Whats a laissez - faire cockpit?

A

No authority.

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16
Q

Blank blank, also known as Environmental Capture, is the tendecy to execute skills autonomously where they are frequently used, as well as transfer them to a similar environment even if it is inappropriate to do so.

A

Habit reversion

17
Q

Operant conditioning requires blank.

A

Reinforcement

18
Q

On the ground what percent is used for verbal communication.

A

7%

19
Q

The acquisition of a skill comprises of which three stages (Anderson model)?

A

Cognitive,associative,automatic

20
Q

In the cockpit, what percentage of communication is verbal?

A

97%

21
Q

What does implicit communication mean?

A

Not clearly stated.

22
Q

a tendency to ignore that information which indicates that a hypothesis or decision is poor is a what bias?

A

Confirmation.

23
Q

Environmental blank is the tendency to execute skills autonomously in environments where they are frequently used, as well as transfer them to a similar environment even if it is inappropriate to do so.

A

Environmental capture.

24
Q

Selected and divided are types of what?

A

Attention.

25
Q

What is the yerkes dodson U curve?

A

Arousal/overload vs performance