Week 6

Question 1

Before electroacoustical & electrophysiological tests, what were popular way for audiologists to seperate sensory from neural hearing losses?

Answer 1

Behavioral measures

Question 2

What are behavioral measures?

Answer 2

such tests as those to determine how long a patient could perceive a sustained tone

-the test that balanced the perception of a tone’s loudness between the ears

Question 3

3 measures made on acoustic immitance meters

Answer 3

1. Static acoustic compliance
2. Typanometry
3. Acoustic Reflex

Question 4

Static acoustic compliance or admittance

Answer 4

the mobility of the eardrum in response to a given value of air pressure in the EAC

Question 5

A measurement of middle-ear pressure, determined by the mobility of the tympanic membrane as a function of various amounts of positive and negative air pressure in the EAC

Answer 5

Tympanometry

Question 6

Acoustic reflex is

Answer 6

the contraction of the middle-ear muscles

Question 7

What is C1?

Answer 7

the first measurement, made with the tympanic membrane loaded with +200 daPa of pressure