Deck 3: Assessing Hearing Acuity and Speech Recognition

Question 1

Speech recognition refers to how well people use auditory and/or tactile information to understand spoken messages.

Answer 1

False

Question 2

The audiogram provides the audiologist with both the patient's communication and rehabilitation needs.

Answer 2

False

Question 3

A typical audiological assessment includes an audiogram.

Answer 3

True

Question 4

An audiogram provides a qualitative assessment of an individual's ability to detect sound.

Question 5

Alexander Graham Bell's wife had a significant hearing loss.

Question 6

The Pure tone audiometry (PTA) for a moderate hearing loss is between 41 and 55 dB HL.

Question 7

The degree of hearing loss and experience with a listening device will affect test selection.

Question 8

A person with a moderate hearing loss may miss most of the spoken message when talking face-to-face if not wearing a hearing aid.

Question 9

For a word to be scored as correct in a sentence test, it must be repeated verbatim.

Question 10

What feature is not included in a consonant phoneme confusion analysis?

A) voicing
B) frication
C) pitch
D) envelope

Question 11

What is the difference between the sound level of the signal and the sound level of the noise?

A) 7 dB
B) signal-to-noise ratio
C) sensational level
D) threshold

Question 12

Which test was modified for English-speaking clinicians to give to their Spanish-speaking patients?

A) Spanish Bisyllables
B) Spanish Picture-Identification Test
C) Synthetic Sentence Identification test (SSI)
D) Bilingual Word Recognition Test

Question 13

Which consonants are classified as nasal consonants?

A) /p/ and /t/
B) /m/ and /n/
C) /f/ and /z/
D) /g/ and /j/

Question 14

Which consonants are produced with steady turbulence and are usually grouped together for the frication feature?

A) /v/, /f/, /z/, /s/
B) /k/, /f/, /p/, /j/
C) /b/, /g/, /d/, /e/
D) /m/, /n/, /q/, /r/

Question 15

The most commonly used stimuli for assessing speech recognition are:

A) long vowels
B) short vowels
C) monosyllabic words
D) polysyllabic words

Question 16

The term _______refers to a sound like a radio off-station.

A) white noise
B) speech noise
C) talker babble
D) competing signal

Question 17

Alexander Graham Bell invented the first _________in 1879.

Question 18

Before the audiometer was invented, many school children were diagnosed with ________ instead of hearing loss.

Question 19

The difference between air conduction thresholds and bone conduction thresholds is called the __________.

Question 20

Most of the acoustic information that contributes to speech recognition is within the frequency band of ___________ Hz to ___________Hz.

Question 21

If the soundfield speaker is located directly behind the patient, the azimuth is_______ degrees.

Question 22

_________________________ are categorical properties of phonemes.

Question 23

Many standardized tests have a(n) ____________ format, which means that no response choices and no contextual cues are provided.

Question 24

Match the following definition with the best choise :

-masked bone conduction for the right ear

A) air-bone gap
B) bone conduction
C) insert earphone
D) y-axis
E) x-axis
F) >
G) <
H) [
I) ]

Question 25

Match the following definition with the best choise :

-frequency

A) air-bone gap
B) bone conduction
C) insert earphone
D) y-axis
E) x-axis
F) >
G) <
H) [
I) ]

Question 26

Match the following definition with the best choise :

-device whose receiver is attached to a tube that leads to an expandable cuff

A) air-bone gap
B) bone conduction
C) insert earphone
D) y-axis
E) x-axis
F) >
G) <
H) [
I) ]

Question 27

Match the following definition with the best choise :

-sound level

A) air-bone gap
B) bone conduction
C) insert earphone
D) y-axis
E) x-axis
F) >
G) <
H) [
I) ]

Question 28

Match the following definition with the best choise :

-unmasked bone conduction for the left ear

A) air-bone gap
B) bone conduction
C) insert earphone
D) y-axis
E) x-axis
F) >
G) <
H) [
I) ]

Question 29

Match the following definition with the best choise :

-the transmission of sound through the bones in the body

A) air-bone gap
B) bone conduction
C) insert earphone
D) y-axis
E) x-axis
F) >
G) <
H) [
I) ]

Question 30

Match the following definition with the best choise :

-masked bone conduction threshold

A) air-bone gap
B) bone conduction
C) insert earphone
D) y-axis
E) x-axis
F) >
G) <
H) [
I) ]

Question 31

Match the following definition with the best choise :

-the difference between air and bone conduction thresholds

A) air-bone gap
B) bone conduction
C) insert earphone
D) y-axis
E) x-axis
F) >
G) <
H) [
I) ]

Question 32

Match the following definition with the best choise :

-unmasked bone conduction for the right ear

A) air-bone gap
B) bone conduction
C) insert earphone
D) y-axis
E) x-axis
F) >
G) <
H) [
I) ]

Question 33

Match the following definitions with their term :

-speech that has been digitized and then processed so that small segments are periodically deleted from the ongoing signal waveform

A) time-compressed speech
B) altered speech
C) filtered speech
D) high-pass filtered speech
E) low-pass filtered speech
F)synthesized speech
G) expanded speech

Question 34

Match the following definitions with their term :

-speech that may be time-compressed, extended, or filtered

A) time-compressed speech
B) altered speech
C) filtered speech
D) high-pass filtered speech
E) low-pass filtered speech
F)synthesized speech
G) expanded speech

Question 35

Match the following definitions with their term :

-speech created by passing the speech signal through filter banks

A) time-compressed speech
B) altered speech
C) filtered speech
D) high-pass filtered speech
E) low-pass filtered speech
F)synthesized speech
G) expanded speech

Question 36

Match the following definitions with their term :

-speech created by duplicating small segments of the signal so that speech sounds as if it were produced at a slow rate

A) time-compressed speech
B) altered speech
C) filtered speech
D) high-pass filtered speech
E) low-pass filtered speech
F)synthesized speech
G) expanded speech

Question 37

Match the following definitions with their term :

-speech created with a computer, not through the human vocal tract

A) time-compressed speech
B) altered speech
C) filtered speech
D) high-pass filtered speech
E) low-pass filtered speech
F)synthesized speech
G) expanded speech

Question 38

Match the following definitions with their term :

-speech that includes the lower but not the higher frequencies

A) time-compressed speech
B) altered speech
C) filtered speech
D) high-pass filtered speech
E) low-pass filtered speech
F)synthesized speech
G) expanded speech

Question 39

Match the following definitions with their term :

-speech that includes the higher but not the lower frequencies

A) time-compressed speech
B) altered speech
C) filtered speech
D) high-pass filtered speech
E) low-pass filtered speech
F)synthesized speech
G) expanded speech

Question 40

Match the following corresponding stimuli with its tests :

-newspaper

A) CID Everyday Sentences
B) CAVET
C) Quick SIN Test
D) Spanish Picture-Identification Test
E) Lexical Neighborhood Test

Question 41

Match the following corresponding stimuli with its tests :

-The child crawled into the dense grass.

A) CID Everyday Sentences
B) CAVET
C) Quick SIN Test
D) Spanish Picture-Identification Test
E) Lexical Neighborhood Test

Question 42

Match the following corresponding stimuli with its tests :

-boca (mouth)

A) CID Everyday Sentences
B) CAVET
C) Quick SIN Test
D) Spanish Picture-Identification Test
E) Lexical Neighborhood Test

Question 43

Match the following corresponding stimuli with its tests :

-Our janitor sweeps the floors every night.

A) CID Everyday Sentences
B) CAVET
C) Quick SIN Test
D) Spanish Picture-Identification Test
E) Lexical Neighborhood Test

Question 44

Match the following corresponding stimuli with its tests :

-orange

A) CID Everyday Sentences
B) CAVET
C) Quick SIN Test
D) Spanish Picture-Identification Test
E) Lexical Neighborhood Test

Question 45

What does speech recognition testing assess?

Question 46

What is the first phase of most aural rehabilitation programs?

Question 47

What are the four considerations in assessing speech recognition?

Question 48

Define threshold.

Question 49

Define speech recognition threshold (SRT).

Question 50

How is dynamic range computed?

Question 51

What is a dead air space?

Question 52

What should an audiologist do if a child's hearing needs to be tested and there is no access to a sound-isolated chamber?

Question 53

What is a phoneme?

Question 54

Define communication mode.

Question 55

Draw an audiogram with a low-frequency conductive hearing loss. Plot thresholds for the test frequencies: 250 Hz, 500 Hz, 1000 Hz, 2000 Hz, 4000 Hz, and 8000 Hz for both ears. The right PTA should = 25dB and the left PTA should = 35dB

Question 56

Explain information transmission analysis.

Question 57

List five questions that could be asked during a screening procedure with an adult.

Question 58

What are the three advantages of using real words as test stimuli instead of nonsense syllables?

Question 59

What are learning effects and how can they be addressed?

Question 60

Explain cluster analysis.

Question 61

List five of the ways to use the results of an in-depth assessment.

Question 62

What are the three criteria for assessing the validity of a speech recognition test?