Audiology Praxis Practice Exam Questions and Answers All Correct
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Audiology Praxis Practice Exam Questions and Answers All Correct
What microphone has the delay ratio of 1 and has the least sensitivity to sounds from behind? - Answer Cardioid
What microphone has a delay ratio of 0 and is least sensitive to sounds on the sides? - Answer Bi-Directional
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Audiology Praxis Practice Exam Questions
and Answers All Correct
What microphone has the delay ratio of 1 and has the least sensitivity to sounds from
behind? - Answer ✔ Cardioid
What microphone has a delay ratio of 0 and is least sensitive to sounds on the sides? -
Answer ✔ Bi-Directional
What microphone is most efficient directionally and has max reduction in the back
corners? - Answer ✔ Hypercardioid
What is the average gain for a mixed hearing loss? - Answer ✔ 1/2 the SNHL plus three
quarters of the conductive
What does the APHB questionnaire consist of? - Answer ✔ 24 questions with 4
subscales
Ease of communication
Reverberation
Background noise
Aversiveness
What does IOI-HA consist of? - Answer ✔ Use
Benefit
Residual difficulty
Satisfaction
Residual participation restriction
Impact on others
Quality of life change
25-18 year CI candidacy - Answer ✔ Severe to profound SNHL AU
Monosyllabic word scores of 30% of less in best aided
Adult CI Candidacy - Answer ✔ Moderate to profound SNHL AU
Sentence recognition scores of 50% or less in ear to be implanted and 60% or less in
opposite ear
Where is the CI implanted? - Answer ✔ implanted into the scala tympani
22-30mm inside of the cochlea
,What are the ideal amount of electrodes for speech in quiet - Answer ✔ 6-8
What is pulse rate for CI stimulation - Answer ✔ 100-2500 pps
Is infrared higher or lower frequency than bluetooth? - Answer ✔ Higher
Tests of Binaural integration - Answer ✔ Dichotic Digits
Competing words free recall and directed ear
Staggered spondaic words
Tests of monaural low redundancy - Answer ✔ SCAN 3
Filtered words
AFG
Time compressed Sentences
What is the FDA approved age for BAHA? - Answer ✔ 5 years old
In effort to reduce the adverse environmental noise, what adjustment can be made to
hearing aids? - Answer ✔ Enable expansion which reduces the low level ambient noise
At what age is myelinazation of Wave V nerve complete? - Answer ✔ Up to 18 months
of age
What frequency range is most affected in patient's with Meniere's disease? - Answer ✔
Low frequencies- 250-2000Hz
A doubling of distance results in how much increase in dB? - Answer ✔ 6dB
At what age can you get reliable VRA results? - Answer ✔ 9 months
What is the optimal stimulation rate for a click ABR? - Answer ✔ 11.1 to 21.1 msec
Elicitation of an acoustic reflex at a hearing level better than obtained with voluntary
behavioral responses suggests the presence of - Answer ✔ Functional or nonorganic
hearing loss
What type of study looks at a single subject or case - Answer ✔ Case Study
What type of study is controlled so that the researcher manipulates one variable to
determine it's effect on other variables? - Answer ✔ Experimental Study
What are variables you manipulate in order to affect the outcome of an experiment? -
Answer ✔ Independent variables (amount of salt added to plants water)
, Variables that represent the outcome of the experiment - Answer ✔ Dependent variable
(any measurement of plant health/growth)
OSHA defined a threshold shift by 10dB at what frequencies to be signficant? - Answer
✔ 2000, 3000, 4,000
What is the common vestibular complaint of a patient receiving cisplatin treatments? -
Answer ✔ ataxia of gait or stance
What reflects the compression parameters used with WDRC - Answer ✔ Low
compression threshold and low compression ratio- provides additional gain for low input
levels with low compression threshold and gradual increase in gain as input levels
increase using low compression ratios
Which of the following is the most valid method of monitoring a 5-year olds progress in
aural rehab? - Answer ✔ periodically administering probes of treatment targets in
naturalistic contexts
What is the AI-DI - Answer ✔ Ratio of microphone output for signals in front vs.
directional- the larger the number, the better the AI-DI
What would be an appropriate acoustic modification for an earmold when fitting a
precipitously sloping high frequency SNHL? - Answer ✔ 2mm sound bore, libby horn,
wide vent- emphasize high, reduce low
Which frequencies are generally correlated with click-evoked ABR thresholds? - Answer
✔ 2000-4000Hz
What is the functional gain of the hearing aid? - Answer ✔ Aided and unaided
soundfield testing- shows the amount of improvement the hearing aid brings
What type of communication uses formal signs, natural gestures, fingerspelling, body
language, listening, lipreading and speech - Answer ✔ Total communication
What communication method uses fingerspelling and oral language only - Answer ✔
Rochester method
Which speech recognition materials are most useful to rule out a lesion affecting the
VIIIth nerve? - Answer ✔ Open-set, monosyllabic, phonetically balanced word lists
administered at several intensity levels
According to PL 99-457, a child under 2 years of age who has hearing loss is entitled to
what? - Answer ✔ A written Individualized Family Service Plan
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