Midterm

Question 1

Roots of audiology

Answer 1

Latin audire- to hear, and Greek logos-the study of

Question 2

Attenuation

Answer 2

Decrease in the strength of a sound

Question 3

Nonorganic hearing loss

Answer 3

The falsification or exaggeration of hearing ability for some councious or unconscious reason

Question 4

Malingering

Answer 4

The conscious, willful, and deliberate act of feigning or exaggerating a disability for personal gain or exemption

Question 5

Psychogenic hearing loss

Answer 5

Nonorganic hearing loss, possibly produced at the unconscious level, for example, by an anxiety state

Question 6

Schwabach test

Answer 6

A bone conduction test that compares the hearing sensitivity of a patient with that of the examiner. Tuning fork on the mastoid process alternately of client and examiner

Question 7

Normal schwabach

Answer 7

Both stop hearing at same time

Question 8

Diminished schwabach

Answer 8

Patients with sensory-neuro loss will stop hearing sound much sooner than examiner

Question 9

Prolonged schwabach

Answer 9

In some conductive loss patient hears tone longer than examiner (will hear at least as long)

Question 10

False normal schwabach

Answer 10

Hard to stimulate one inner ear without the other so if there is a difference in sensitivity between the ears a patient will respond to the sound heard through the better ear

Question 11

Otology

Answer 11

Medical specialty concerned with diseases of the ear