Exam 1

Question 1

Why did audiology start?

Answer 1

after WWII because so many veterans returned with hearing loss needing aural rehab including communication strategies, manual communication, and hearing aids, etc.

Question 2

hearing loss in childhood

Answer 2

-impacts speech and language development
-if a child is not developing speech and language normally
-hearing should always be screened and then tested if child does not pass screening

Question 3

what does an audiologist do?

Answer 3

diagnostic hearing exams, hearing aid evaluations, fittings and repairs, hearing conservation, auditory evoked potentials (brain stem), balance tests and vestibular therapy, central auditory processing exam, aural rehabilitation, intraoperative monitoring, and research

Question 4

medical audiology

Answer 4

works in hospitals, ENT practices, and neurotology practices

Question 5

Educational Audiology

Answer 5

works in the school as an audiologist doing screening, testing, hearing aids, assisting listening devices for classroom use

Question 6

Pediatric Audiology

Answer 6

work with diagnosis of children with hearing loss, rehabilitation of children with hearing loss, hearing aids and cochlear implants

Question 7

Dispensing audiologists

Answer 7

practice involves primary working with clients. in the sales and the fitting of hearing aids

Question 8

Industrial Audiology

Answer 8

working in industry, measuring noise levels, hearing testing, hearing conversation program

Question 9

other audiologists

Answer 9

tele-audiology, forensic audiology, intraoperative monitoring audiology, recreational and animal audiology, higher education, consultant for hearing aid or cochlear implant company, and research

Question 10

sound

Answer 10

vibrations carried through the air in the form in pressure waves

Question 11

Transverse Wave

Answer 11

molecules move perpendicular to the direction of the wave

Question 12

longitudinal wave

Answer 12

air molecules move along the same axis as the whole

Question 13

sine waves

Answer 13

air molecules are moving along the same axis as a function of TIME, and sound waves are represented as SINE waves

Question 14

compression

Answer 14

point where the wave is most compact, molecules are shoved together, and are the darken areas are compression

Question 15

rarefraction

Answer 15

parts of the wave that are the least compact, molecules are pulled apart, push together and pulling apart of air molecules- this motion creates waves

Question 16

frequency

Answer 16

how many cycles are occurring over time, one cycle completes in one second, the cycle determines pitch, and the more cycles per second, the higher the perceived pitch, and we represent CPS in Hertz Hz.