Deck 5: Auditory-Only and Auditory Training for Adults

Question 1

Auditory training can change a person's hearing sensitivity.

Answer 1

False

Question 2

An auditory training session can combine both synthetic and analytic training.

Answer 2

True

Question 3

Having a student listen to a clinician read a paragraph and then answer questions about the paragraph's content is an example of a typical analytic training exercise.

Answer 3

False

Question 4

A transient but powerful noise can lead to hearing loss.

Question 5

Prolonged exposure to excessive noise levels can lead to hearing loss.

Question 6

Most people who get their first hearing aid will immediately experience perfect compensation of their poor hearing.

Question 7

Many patients with sensorineural hearing loss have a sloping loss, so the attenuation and elimination of mid and high frequency speech information becomes exacerbated.

Question 8

The presence of background noise helps to make a speech signal clearer and more audible.

Question 9

New hearing aid users realize greater benefits from auditory training as compared to experienced hearing aid users.

Question 10

The absence or restoration of auditory stimulation may cause the adult brain to change.

Question 11

When providing formal auditory training using live voice, you should always encourage students to watch your mouth movements as you speak.

Question 12

Selective attention is often impaired in people with hearing loss.

Question 13

Most cochlear implant users can perceive and appraise pitch, timbre, and melody when listening to music.

Question 14

Brain activity appears to change as a result of auditory learning.

Question 15

Existent data suggest that auditory training yields exceptional and consistent gains, with most students achieving almost normal hearing.

Question 16

What percentage of hearing aid owners are sufficiently satisfied with the benefits to use hearing aids on a regular basis?

A) 10-20%
B) 25-40%
C) 40-60%
D) 60-80%

Question 17

What is the most common complaint patients have about their hearing aids?

A) They do not fit well.
B) They can detect spoken language, but cannot understand it.
C) The volume is too low.
D) They cannot differentiate between voices.

Question 18

Who discovered that listening practice can enhance sound awareness?

A) Jean Marc Gaspard Itard
B) Friedrich Bezold
C) Viktor Urbantschitsch
D) Raymond Carhart

Question 19

It is estimated that __________ of the US population between the ages of 20 and 69 years of age have noise-induced hearing loss.

A) 5%
B) 15%
C) 25%
D) 33%

Question 20

What is the most common reason that patients receive auditory training?

A) to improve their ability to differentiate between pitch and tone
B) to improve their ability to detect background noise
C) to improve their ability to detect soft sounds
D) to improve their ability to recognize speech

Question 21

Sentence-based training requires students to use _________skills.

A) bottom-up processing
B) top-down processing
C) both bottom-up processing and top-down processing
D) neither bottom-up processing nor top-down processing

Question 22

When listening to music, cochlear implant users should:

A) choose music selections carefully
B) have very targeted, specific listening goals
C) avoid using visual input
D) listen in an environment with significant background noise

Question 23

Noise can lead to damage to the________ nerve, which in turn results in hearing loss.

Question 24

_________is plotted on the Y-axis of a spectrogram.

Question 25

_________ is plotted on the X-axis of a spectrogram.

Question 26

A person with hearing loss often expends more________ in attending to the speech signal.

Question 27

___________-based training may present nonsense syllables in vowel-consonant-vowel context, such as aba and ata, and/or in consonant-vowel and vowel-consonant context, such as ba and ab, or may present real words in a static context, such as vowels in an h-d context.

Question 28

________ -based training emphasizes meaningful speech units.

Question 29

________ -based training presents sentences as training stimuli.

Question 30

The use of __________-based training has been motivated by research showing interactions exist between the effects of peripheral hearing loss and cognitive functions such as working memory and selective attention.

Question 31

What three developments spurred the popularity of auditory training in the 20th century?

Question 32

What is the most obvious effect of sensorineural hearing loss on speech listening?

Question 33

List the three reasons why brain plasticity is relevant to aural rehabilitation.

Question 34

Auditory training will be more engaging in the future for what two reasons?

Question 35

List five advantages to using computerized instruction in auditory training.

Question 36

What is the primary disadvantage of computer-based auditory training in the home environment?

Question 37

What are the four general types of auditory training?

Question 38

Identify the two approaches for training music perception, and explain how they differ.

Question 39

List the five whole-song approach activities used by the Hearing Rehabilitation Foundation for Med-El and adult cochlear implant users.

Question 40

What is the primary goal of auditory training?

Question 41

Explain the difference between analytic and synthetic training.

Question 42

Match each description with its musical term :

-a pattern of sounds and silences that is repeated

A) melody
B) pitch
C) rhythm
D) timbre

Question 43

Match each description with its musical term :

-a sequence of musical tones that are perceived as a single entity

A) melody
B) pitch
C) rhythm
D) timbre

Question 44

Match each description with its musical term :

-the quality of a musical note that distinguishes different sound sources

A) melody
B) pitch
C) rhythm
D) timbre

Question 45

Match each description with its musical term :

-a perceptual phenomenon that allows the ordering of sounds along a frequency scale

A) melody
B) pitch
C) rhythm
D) timbre

Question 46

Match each description with its term :

-the cognitive system used to temporarily store information required to perform complex cognitive tasks

A) noise-induced hearing loss
B) noise notch
C) spectrogram
D) frequency selectivity
E) temporal resolution
F) perceptual effort
G) working memory
H) long-term memory
I) plasticity

Question 47

Match each description with its term :

-the auditory system's ability to respond differently to different frequencies and bands of frequencies

A) noise-induced hearing loss
B) noise notch
C) spectrogram
D) frequency selectivity
E) temporal resolution
F) perceptual effort
G) working memory
H) long-term memory
I) plasticity

Question 48

Match each description with its term :

-the effort a person expends to recognize speech

A) noise-induced hearing loss
B) noise notch
C) spectrogram
D) frequency selectivity
E) temporal resolution
F) perceptual effort
G) working memory
H) long-term memory
I) plasticity

Question 49

Match each description with its term :

-the characteristic dip in hearing sensitivity at around 4000 HZ that is associated with an audiogram for a patient who has noise-induced hearing loss

A) noise-induced hearing loss
B) noise notch
C) spectrogram
D) frequency selectivity
E) temporal resolution
F) perceptual effort
G) working memory
H) long-term memory
I) plasticity

Question 50

Match each description with its term :

-the physiological changes in the central nervous system that occur as a result of sensory experiences

A) noise-induced hearing loss
B) noise notch
C) spectrogram
D) frequency selectivity
E) temporal resolution
F) perceptual effort
G) working memory
H) long-term memory
I) plasticity

Question 51

Match each description with its term :

-a three-dimensional graph of speech that displays frequency, time, and amplitude

A) noise-induced hearing loss
B) noise notch
C) spectrogram
D) frequency selectivity
E) temporal resolution
F) perceptual effort
G) working memory
H) long-term memory
I) plasticity

Question 52

Match each description with its term :

-the cognitive system used to maintain information for extended periods of time

A) noise-induced hearing loss
B) noise notch
C) spectrogram
D) frequency selectivity
E) temporal resolution
F) perceptual effort
G) working memory
H) long-term memory
I) plasticity

Question 53

Match each description with its term :

-a permanent sensorineural hearing loss caused by exposure to excessive sound levels

A) noise-induced hearing loss
B) noise notch
C) spectrogram
D) frequency selectivity
E) temporal resolution
F) perceptual effort
G) working memory
H) long-term memory
I) plasticity

Question 54

Match each description with its term :

-the auditory system's ability to perceive or discriminate sound segments occurring closely in time as separate events

A) noise-induced hearing loss
B) noise notch
C) spectrogram
D) frequency selectivity
E) temporal resolution
F) perceptual effort
G) working memory
H) long-term memory
I) plasticity

Question 55

Match each description with its term :

-a component of the event-related potential; arises from electrical activity in the brain and occurs after a change in a repetitive sequence of syllables

A) noise-induced hearing loss
B) noise notch
C) spectrogram
D) frequency selectivity
E) temporal resolution
F) perceptual effort
G) working memory
H) long-term memory
I) plasticity

Question 56

Match each description with its term :

-a selective narrowing of mental focus and receptivity

A) noise-induced hearing loss
B) noise notch
C) spectrogram
D) frequency selectivity
E) temporal resolution
F) perceptual effort
G) working memory
H) long-term memory
I) plasticity

Question 57

Match each description with its term :

-the mental processes involved in obtaining knowledge, in comprehending, and in thinking

A) noise-induced hearing loss
B) noise notch
C) spectrogram
D) frequency selectivity
E) temporal resolution
F) perceptual effort
G) working memory
H) long-term memory
I) plasticity

Question 58

Match each description with its term :

-the processing of sound that is influenced only from input from the auditory periphery

A) noise-induced hearing loss
B) noise notch
C) spectrogram
D) frequency selectivity
E) temporal resolution
F) perceptual effort
G) working memory
H) long-term memory
I) plasticity

Question 59

Match each description with its term :

-these measure a person's working memory capacity to store a string of numerals

A) noise-induced hearing loss
B) noise notch
C) spectrogram
D) frequency selectivity
E) temporal resolution
F) perceptual effort
G) working memory
H) long-term memory
I) plasticity

Question 60

Match each description with its term :

-the processing of a speech signal that is influenced by expectations and prior knowledge

A) noise-induced hearing loss
B) noise notch
C) spectrogram
D) frequency selectivity
E) temporal resolution
F) perceptual effort
G) working memory
H) long-term memory
I) plasticity