Exam Preview for 28258: Issues Impacting People with Hearing and Li

Issues Impacting People with Hearing and Listening Problems and Oticon's Opn Solution

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1. The lowest tone/note tested on a standard audiogram is Middle "C" on a piano Three octaves below middle "C" on a piano Two octaves below middle "C" on a piano Two octaves above middle "C" on a piano.
2. Screening Tests for hearing loss __________ include speech understanding in noise ability. never rarely sometimes usually always
3. According to the Harris Poll (May, 2016), 88% of people frequently miss words in conversation feel isolated cannot remember conversations have difficulty with high frequency sounds have hearing loss
4. If all we do is increase loudness people will better understand speech in noise people will recall difficult words more readily the problem (speech in noise) becomes louder and more frustrating conductive hearing loss will be overcome auditory processing disorders will be amplified
5. According to Beck (2016), the first hundred years of audiology were about listening speech in noise auditory processing hearing amplification
6. The key findings of the Harris Poll are ___________ with the professional literature. in opposition in vast disagreement in conflict consistent 100% in total agreement
7. Desjardins (2016) showed that hearing aid amplification is consistently innocuous improves listening attitudes makes things louder helps us solve recruitment helps improve cognitive ability
8. Beck argues that the solution to hearing loss is to make things louder makes things quieter reduce the signal to noise ration make it easier for the brain to acquire and process natural acoustic information make it easier for the brain to synthesize vision and audition
9. Oticon Opn employs how many frequency bands? 8 16 32 64 128
10. Listening is _______________ to sound. Attributing loudness Improving the SNR Attributing spectral content Assigning spatial information Attributing meaning