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Making the Musical Connection: Programming Hearing Devices for Music Listening and Music Performance

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1.  A clinical technique to measure the resonant nature of a musical instrument is:
  1. Real ear measurement
  2. Otoacoustic emission testing
  3. Admittance testing
  4. Comparison with another known type of resonator
2.  The acoustic transformer effect has the effect of:
  1. Enhancing lower frequency sound energy
  2. Enhancing higher frequency sound energy
  3. Lessening lower frequency sound energy
  4. Lessening higher frequency sound energy
3.  Damping is independent of:
  1. Frequency
  2. Intensity
  3. Wavelength resonance character
  4. Standing waves
4.  Crest factor is related to:
  1. Toothpaste
  2. Internal damping
  3. Side branch resonators
  4. Playing intensity
5.  High frequency sounds reflect because of:
  1. The short wavelength “seeing an obstruction”
  2. The long wavelength “seeing an obstruction”
  3. The low frequency sounds are affected by damping
  4. The high frequency sounds are affected by damping
6.  Three factors that need to be considered when selecting a hearing aid for music are:
  1. Spectrum, intensity, crest factor
  2. Spectrum, compression, phase
  3. Spectrum, phase, intensity
  4. Spectrum, crest factor, phase
7.  The crest factor of speech is _____________.
  1. 0 dB
  2. 6 dB
  3. 12 dB
  4. 18 dB
8.  The crest factor of music is ______________.
  1. 0 dB
  2. 6 dB
  3. 12 dB
  4. 18 dB
9.  A strategy to improve listening to live music is to:
  1. Turn the hearing aid off but leave it in the ear
  2. Turn the hearing aid off and remove it
  3. Use a dedicated “music” program
  4. Use the “speech in noise” program
10.  In order to reduce the internal noise of a hearing aid which has been caused by the use of a -6 dB/octave microphone:
  1. Turn down the expansion
  2. Turn up the expansion
  3. Increase the OSPL90 threshold
  4. Decrease the OSPL90 threshold
11.  The primary factor affecting accurate pitch perception in CI recipients is:
  1. Internal Hardware
  2. External Hardware
  3. Mapping
  4. A combination of the above plus individual factors
12.  Which part of the CI system creates the “GIGO” problem?
  1. The microphone
  2. The A/D converter
  3. The electrode array
  4. The map
13.  How long after initial activation should serious re-mapping for music begin?
  1. 6 months
  2. 12 months
  3. 24 months
  4. Whenever asymptotic speech in noise performance is documented
14.  Which is a reasonable expectation for the majority of CI recipients?
  1. You will hear most music, and will enjoy some of it.
  2. You will hear, understand and perform music like you did before your hearing loss
  3. With a lot of work, you should be able to find at least one genre of music that you hear well enough to enjoy
  4. You will hear most music and may understand and enjoy some of it.
15.  Which is a reasonable expectation for a CI recipient who was a professional musician prior to deafness?
  1. You will never perform again
  2. You will hear, understand and perform music like you did before your hearing loss.
  3. With a lot of work, you should be able to find at least one genre of music that you hear well enough to perform.
  4. You will only ever play primitive music (atonal, diatonic, etc).

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