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Moving Beyond the Audiogram Towards a Patient-Centered, Interactive First Fit

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1.  The relationships between individual factors and HA settings are computed in the Hearing Profile by a machine learning algorithm. Why?
  1. Because only one factor influences one setting
  2. Because the interrelations between factors and settings are highly complex
  3. Because different factors never combine together
  4. Because only age has a direct relation to hearing aid settings
2.  Which objective hearing aid benefit was observed when the patients were fitted using the Hearing Profile?
  1. Decrease in the EEG-based listening effort measure
  2. Drop in speech in noise performance accuracy
  3. Speech in quiet performance accuracy decrease
  4. Increase in pure tone thresholds
3.  Pitch is an important cue for speech understanding because:
  1. It conveys prosody (emotion) during speech
  2. It allows us to differentiate voices
  3. It conveys meaning in tonal languages
  4. All of the above
4.  Tonal working memory measured in new (inexperienced) hearing aid wearers was found to be:
  1. longer than the verbal working memory
  2. shorter than the verbal working memory
  3. significantly influenced by age and hearing loss
  4. much better when wearing hearing aids
5.  Reduction in the reaction time needed for speech in noise task when performed with hearing aids fitted with Hearing Profile implies that:
  1. Less cognitive effort was needed to do the task
  2. Subjects were bored and stopped paying attention
  3. There was no difference between the standard and Hearing Profile Fit
  4. All of the above
6.  The sound quiz investigates tonal working memory, and was shown to be strongly correlated with:
  1. Motivation to buy a hearing aid
  2. Pupillometry
  3. Pure tone audiogram
  4. Speech in noise performance and frequency compression acceptance
7.  How does frequent music listening habit influence hearing handicap:
  1. The patient is likely to have better speech in noise understanding
  2. The patient will not benefit from the music program
  3. The patient has problems with concentration
  4. None of the above
8.  Outcome expectancy is a term linked with:
  1. acceptable noise levels
  2. music education in childhood
  3. positive estimation of the hearing aid use outcome and self-efficacy
  4. working memory capacity
9.  Fully individualized hearing aid fitting:
  1. Would be possible but longer and more complex
  2. Would be easily achievable if one additional measurement was done
  3. Would require the assistance of the significant other
  4. Would require the patient to have a strong musical background
10.  The advantages of the Hearing Profile fitting are:
  1. It involves the patient in the fitting process
  2. It increases patients' satisfaction with the hearing aids
  3. It reduces listening effort in difficult, speech in noise situations
  4. All of the above

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