Exam 2 Part 4

Question 1

If the compliance of B is less than half as large as A, what is it an indication of?

Answer 1

Lesion in the 7th or 8th cranial nerve

Question 2

If the compliance of B is as large as A, what is it an indication of?

Answer 2

Normal

Question 3

Audiometry that uses a real-world stimulus

Answer 3

Speech audiometry

Question 4

Implies understanding and comprehension

Answer 4

Speech perception

Question 5

Level at which one becomes aware of the presence of speech

Answer 5

Detection

Question 6

Level at which one is able to distinguish between individual speech stimuli

Answer 6

Discrimination

Question 7

Level at which one is able to label what has been heard

Answer 7

Identification

Question 8

Threshold measure; focus is on assessing audibility not vocabulary

Answer 8

Reception

Question 9

Supra threshold measure; focus is on intelligibility. Not a test of vocabulary, although this can certainly impact performance

Answer 9

Recognition

Question 10

What are the advantages to MLV?

Answer 10

Personal touch, more flexibility, able to give feedback to the patient, can modify speed of testing, able to alter word list, able to test difficult-to-test populations

Question 11

What are the advantages to pre-recorded voices?

Answer 11

Don’t have to monitor VU meter, same stimulus given to patients if you’re doing research, standardization, covering mouth/lip not needed, will not give visual cues to patients

Question 12

Test of sensitivity to use actual speech stimulus than pure tone audiometry; checks the validity of pure tone testing, provides a reference level for speech-regonition testing,

Answer 12

Speech reception threshold (SRT)

Question 13

SRT - PTA = ____ dB

Answer 13

+/- 5-6 dB

Question 14

What 3 criteria does the stimuli for SRT testing pass?

Answer 14

Familiarity, phonetic dissimilarity, homogeneity of audio

Question 15

Bi-syllabic words with equal emphasis on each syllable

Answer 15

Spondees

Question 16

Putting keywords into a phrase

Answer 16

Carrier phrase

Question 17

When do we do SRT for children and adults?

Answer 17

Adults: doesn’t matter
Children: first

Question 18

Usually verbal response and can be non-verbal

Answer 18

Response mode

Question 19

If someone is suspected of faking hearing loss we use vulgar words

Answer 19

Vulgar spondees

Question 20

What is the purpose of SRT (speech response threshold)?

Answer 20

Using actual speech stimulus rather than pure tone audiometry, checks the validity of PTA results, provides reference level for speech recognition testing, helps to evaluate difficult-to-test populations

Question 21

What is the purpose of speech recognition tests?

Answer 21

Estimate degree of hearing handicap, can determine site of lesion

Question 22

What are some other helpful things that speech recognition tests do?

Answer 22

Determine site of lesion, monitor progress of aural rehabilitation, assess hearing aid performance, assess central auditory function

Question 23

Performance may peak but as you make speech louder, performance decreases suggesting a neural lesion

Answer 23

Performance intensity phonetically balanced words rollover (PIPB rollover)

Question 24

What is the formula for PIPB rollover if it is significant?

Answer 24

PB max - PB min is greater than 20%