Exam 1 Part 5

Question 1

What type of hearing loss is associated with a sloping configuration?

Answer 1

Sensorineural

Question 2

What type of hearing loss is associated with a rising configuration?

Answer 2

Conductive

Question 3

What type of hearing loss is associated with a notched configuration?

Answer 3

Noise induced (sensorineural)

Question 4

What type of hearing loss is associated with a fragmentary configuration?

Answer 4

Deafness

Question 5

What type of hearing loss is associated with a cookie bite configuration?

Answer 5

Congenital, developmental cause

Question 6

True or false: Bone conduction can be worse than air conduction

Answer 6

False; can’t be worse

Question 7

True or false: Bone conduction can be better than air conduction

Answer 7

True

Question 8

True or false: Bone conduction tests test both of the ears or the better cochlea

Answer 8

True

Question 9

What is the only way we know that we are testing a certain cochlea?

Answer 9

If we mask it

Question 10

Conductive hearing loss is no more than ___ dB

Answer 10

60

Question 11

Softests level that a given listener can hear a sound

Answer 11

Threshold

Question 12

What is the operational definition of threshold?

Answer 12

Level of sound that can be heard by an individual 50% of the time

Question 13

What is the clinical definition of threshold?

Answer 13

Lowest level at which 3 responses are first obtained

Question 14

What is the technique we use for pure tone audiometry?

Answer 14

Modified Hughson-Westlake technique

Question 15

What are the 3 phases of the Modified Hughson-Westlake technique?

Answer 15

Familiarization, descending, threshold

Question 16

Familiarize patient with stimulus and asking them to raise their hand when they hear the tone

Answer 16

Familiarization

Question 17

What intensity do you start with during familiarization?

Answer 17

40 dB

Question 18

Decreasing level of stimulus

Answer 18

Descending phase

Question 19

How much do we descend during the descending phase?

Answer 19

10 dB

Question 20

Phase during pure tone audiometry when we find the threshold

Answer 20

Threshold

Question 21

During the threshold phase we go ___ up ____ down and we always ____ to threshold

Answer 21

10 up, 5 down, ascend

Question 22

Response must be right after stimulus is presented

Answer 22

Latency consistent

Question 23

Don’t fall into rhythm of presenting the stimulus

Answer 23

Avoid pattern of presentation

Question 24

What is the order we use to test pure tone audiometry in dB HL (6)?

Answer 24

1000, 2000, 4000, 8000, 1000, 500, 250

Question 25

Person raises hand when we didn’t present a stimulus

Answer 25

False positives

Question 26

What happens if there are no false positives present?

Answer 26

Person is too conservative and should be encouraged to raise hand more