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Improving Everyday Life with Hearing Rehabilitation

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1.  Speed of processing is affected by:
  1. context
  2. the quality of the signal (intact v. distorted)
  3. both A and B
  4. None of the above
2.  Self-efficacy is the confidence a person has in his/her:
  1. ability to perform a particular task
  2. self image
  3. intelligence
  4. willingness to follow rehab recommendations
3.  When there are multiple talkers in an auditory scene, compared to younger adults, older adults with good hearing (not yet candidates for a hearing aid):
  1. have more trouble when the location of the target voice is uncertain
  2. have more trouble when the target voice is at the side
  3. have more trouble when they need to disengage attention
  4. have more trouble focusing attention on the target
4.  Compared to younger adults, older adults with good hearing (not yet candidates for a hearing aid):
  1. have less benefit from semantic context
  2. have less benefit from spatial separation in informational masking conditions
  3. have less benefit from priming
  4. need a better signal-to-noise ratio to achieve the same accuracy on word recognition tests
5.  Compared to peers with good hearing, older adults with hearing loss are:
  1. more likely to develop cognitive impairment
  2. more likely to use the internet
  3. more likely to be sensitive about age and being victims of ageism
  4. more likely to have low self-efficacy for using technology
6.  Compared to younger adults, when older adults perform equivalently, their brains:
  1. Have less widespread activation
  2. Have the same level and patterns of activation
  3. Have more anterior and less posterior activation
  4. Have less anterior and more posterior activation
7.  Which is NOT a technique for building self-efficacy:
  1. using role models
  2. teaching relaxation methods
  3. teaching skills to the significant other
  4. reducing the cost of hearing aids
8.  Compared to listening in quiet, when people listen to speech in noise:
  1. working memory span decreases
  2. speed of processing increases
  3. self-efficacy is not affected
  4. benefit from vision decreases
9.  Compared to listening to intact speech, when people listen to temporally distorted or speeded speech:
  1. working memory span increases
  2. benefit from context is reduced
  3. age-related differences in word recognition are reduced
  4. ability to allocate auditory spatial attention decreases
10.  Emotion does NOT affect:
  1. memory
  2. attention
  3. word recognition
  4. intelligence